The star has given the full amount of his £25,000 honor winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to preserve the UK's independent concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the prize on mid-October as his third album his work was named the best record of the previous year.
The musician has chosen to hand the money over to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role grassroots venues had in his beginning days.
"I would not have achieved what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I played around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," said the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to assist 38 small stages across the UK.
The money supported venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and sound issues.
Some locations obtained monetary aid in upgrading facilities and technical equipment that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that funds from concerts in major spaces helps the smaller venues, where it all starts for performers like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
He is among several artists to contribute his honor prize money to good deeds.
In they received the trophy in the year 1996 for their release Different Class, frontman Cocker announced that the group would contribute their prize money to the charity the charity.
In 2002, artist Ms Dynamite split her award among several charities, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," she explained to a publication.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the youth organization that developed their act, as well as other local music groups.
Additionally 1994 winners M People donated their prize to a MS organization after a friend was diagnosed the condition.
"The victory was quite enough," stated vocalist the singer. "The money was the extra but we could do without the extra, because we had the main prize. So our winning touched another person's life."
Recently, the MVT shared it had saved two small stages in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
The first in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues program, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who buy "stakes" in the properties.
