The artist has handed over the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which works to save the United Kingdom's grassroots live music spots.
Fender was given the award on 16 October as his new release his work was chosen as the outstanding release of the previous year.
The musician has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the vital role grassroots venues played in his early career.
"As an artist would not have achieved this success if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Sam Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these locations have permanently closed – roughly 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts including Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by including a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across the UK.
These funds supported venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to challenges arising from flooding, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted financial assistance in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted performers and fans.
"The notion that funds from performances in major spaces helps the local stages, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just logical," Fender has stated.
He is far from the only musician to donate his award prize money to good deeds.
Back when the band received the award in the year 1996 for their release Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would give their prize money to the charity the charity.
In 2002, musician Ms Dynamite divided her bounty across several charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I contributed a grand to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked updated gear," she explained to a publication.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the local youth club that developed their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
And 1994 winners M People donated their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"The victory was quite enough," said artist Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the cake. So our winning touched somebody else's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had protected two small stages in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
The Joiners in the city and the other in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the properties.
