The star has donated the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the United Kingdom's grassroots live music spots.
He was given the prize on mid-October as his third album the album was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
He has chosen to hand the money over to the trust, in recognition of the vital role grassroots venues fulfilled in his initial steps.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the shows I played around the area, and beyond, when I was just getting going," stated the artist. "These venues are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, top acts including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also took part, generating in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support 38 local spots across Britain.
The money assisted locations that were confronting imminent closure due to challenges stemming from floods, fires and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that helped artists and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from performances in big venues supports the independent spots, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
The musician is among several artists to donate his honor funds to worthy causes.
When Pulp won the award in the mid-90s for their album their work, vocalist the singer declared that the band would give their prize money to the organization War Child.
During 2002, musician she shared her prize across several organizations, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they required new equipment," she told outlets.
In recent years, they donated their prize money to the local youth club that supported their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
And the 1994 recipients M People contributed their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"Winning was quite enough," remarked artist Heather Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the cake. So our success affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved a couple of small stages in south-east England, by transferring them to local control.
The first in that area and the other in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is backed by a national body and supporters who buy "stakes" in the venues.
