The artist has donated the full amount of his £25,000 honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the UK's small live music spots.
Fender was awarded the award on October 16 as his third album People Watching was declared the top album of the last 12 months.
He has opted to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the crucial part small stages fulfilled in his early career.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the region, and beyond, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous small stages across Britain.
These funds helped locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from flooding, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Some locations received funding support in upgrading infrastructure and gear that positively impacted performers and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from performances in big venues supports the local stages, where it begins for musicians like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to give his award winnings to good deeds.
In they earned the award in the mid-90s for their album the album, frontman Cocker announced that the band would donate their prize money to the organization War Child.
During 2002, artist Ms Dynamite divided her bounty among multiple organizations, like the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I gave a grand to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required new equipment," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
In recent years, they gave their funds to the community center that nurtured their group, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year they donated their award to a MS organization after a friend was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," remarked vocalist Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the cake. So our success affected somebody else's life."
Last week, the MVT revealed it had saved two grassroots venues in the South East, by placing them under public stewardship.
The Joiners in the city and the other in that location were bought under the community ownership program, which is supported by the arts council and enthusiasts who buy "stakes" in the buildings.
