The star has donated the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound honor winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the Britain's independent music venues.
Fender was awarded the prize on October 16 as his third album the album was declared the best record of the past year.
He has chosen to hand the money over to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part small stages fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing this success if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," said Sam Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these locations have shut down – roughly 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, top acts including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help independent venues.
Fender also participated, collecting over £100k on his live tour to assist 38 grassroots venues across the UK.
The donation assisted spaces that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, conflicts and sound issues.
Some locations were granted financial assistance in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and fans.
"The concept that revenue from performances in large arenas backs the local stages, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just common sense," Fender has commented.
Fender is among several artists to contribute his honor funds to good deeds.
In the band earned the prize in 1996 for their release the album, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would donate their prize money to the charity War Child.
That year, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite split her bounty between multiple good causes, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," the artist explained to the media.
In recent years, they contributed their winnings to the community center that supported their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year they contributed their award to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was identified with the condition.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," stated singer Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the honor. So our success touched another person's life."
In the past week, the MVT shared it had saved several local spots in that region, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in the city and The Croft in that location were acquired under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by the arts council and enthusiasts who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
