The star has given the full amount of his £25k award cash to the MVT, which operates to save the United Kingdom's independent concert spaces.
He was presented with the cheque on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the past year.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues had in his initial steps.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I did around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – roughly 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to support the industry, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help local stages.
He also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to help thirty-eight local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money helped spaces that were confronting possible closure due to challenges arising from water damage, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and sound issues.
Other venues were granted funding support in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from performances in large arenas helps the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
He is far from the only musician to give his award prize money to worthy causes.
Back when Pulp earned the trophy in 1996 for their release the album, frontman Cocker stated that the group would contribute their cash to the non-profit War Child.
That year, musician she split her prize among several good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I donated a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," she told the media.
Previously, they gave their prize money to the community center that supported their act, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year they donated their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was diagnosed the condition.
"The victory was sufficient," said singer the singer. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the honor. So our victory impacted another person's life."
Last week, the MVT shared it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to local control.
The first in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were bought under the community ownership program, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who buy "stakes" in the buildings.
