The star has donated the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to save the Britain's small concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the prize on October 16 as his latest record the album was chosen as the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
Fender has opted to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function local spots had in his early career.
"I personally wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These venues are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – about 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also joined in, collecting more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support numerous grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds supported spaces that were facing imminent closure due to challenges arising from flooding, fires and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained funding support in modernizing amenities and gear that helped artists and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from performances in large arenas helps the independent spots, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has said.
The musician is among several artists to contribute his honor winnings to worthy causes.
In the band received the prize in 1996 for their record their work, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would give their prize money to the organization War Child.
During 2002, musician Ms Dynamite shared her award among a few organizations, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I donated a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," she explained to outlets.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the local youth club that nurtured their band, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Additionally winners that year the group gave their prize to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," remarked artist the singer. "The money was the cherry on top but we could do without the cherry, because we had the honor. So our winning impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the trust shared it had rescued a couple of local spots in that region, by bringing them into local control.
The first in Southampton and the other in Bristol were purchased under the public acquisition scheme, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the buildings.
