The artist has donated the full amount of his £25,000 honor winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to save the UK's independent music venues.
Fender was awarded the prize on October 16 as his third album his work was named the top album of the last 12 months.
He has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part local spots had in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the shows I played around the region, and further afield, when I was just getting going," stated Sam Fender. "These spaces are legendary, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – roughly 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Sam Fender also participated, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help thirty-eight small stages across the UK.
These funds helped locations that were facing potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from floods, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces were granted financial assistance in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from shows in major spaces backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to donate his award funds to worthy causes.
Back when the band earned the award in the year 1996 for their release Different Class, vocalist Cocker stated that the act would give their cash to the charity War Child.
In 2002, artist the artist shared her bounty between a few organizations, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I contributed a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they required updated gear," Ms Dynamite shared with a publication.
Previously, they gave their winnings to the community center that supported their act, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally 1994 winners the group gave their award to a MS organization after a friend was identified with the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," said artist the singer. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the honor. So our winning touched the lives of others."
Last week, the MVT revealed it had saved two small stages in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in Southampton and the other in the city were purchased under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is supported by a national body and supporters who purchase "shares" in the venues.
