The artist has donated the full amount of his £25,000 honor cash to the MVT, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's small music venues.
Fender was awarded the cheque on 16 October as his latest record his work was named the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the MVT, in recognition of the vital role grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"I personally would not have achieved what I am doing today if it weren't for all the gigs I did around the area, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have ceased operations – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Recently, well-known musicians like Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a small levy to their admission fees, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, raising more than £100,000 on his live tour to help thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from flooding, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Some locations received financial assistance in modernizing amenities and gear that helped performers and audiences.
"The concept that money from shows in major spaces backs the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has said.
He is not the first artist to give his award prize money to good deeds.
When the band earned the prize in 1996 for their record the album, lead singer Cocker stated that the group would donate their cash to the non-profit War Child.
That year, musician Ms Dynamite shared her award among several organizations, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also donated a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required updated gear," she explained to outlets.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective donated their funds to the community center that nurtured their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally the 1994 recipients the group gave their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"Winning was quite enough," remarked vocalist the singer. "The cash was the extra but we could do without the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success touched another person's life."
In the past week, the trust revealed it had protected a couple of small stages in that region, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were acquired under the public acquisition initiative, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who purchase "ownership units" in the buildings.
