The artist has donated the entirety of his £25,000 award prize money to the trust for venues, which functions to save the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
Fender was given the cheque on mid-October as his new release the album was chosen as the outstanding release of the past year.
He has chosen to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the crucial part local spots had in his early career.
"I would not have achieved what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the area, and further afield, when I was beginning," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these locations have ceased operations – approximately one-sixth of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also joined in, raising more than £100,000 on his recent tour to help thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
These funds supported locations that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues arising from floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues received financial assistance in modernizing amenities and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from performances in large arenas helps the independent spots, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his award funds to charitable organizations.
Back when they received the award in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, frontman the singer stated that the act would contribute their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
That year, musician she shared her award among a few organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," she shared with the media.
Two years ago, they donated their prize money to the local youth club that supported their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Additionally winners that year the group gave their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was found to have the illness.
"Winning was ample," said vocalist Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our success touched another person's life."
Last week, the trust revealed it had rescued several small stages in south-east England, by placing them under community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and the other in the city were purchased under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who buy "stakes" in the venues.
