The artist has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 honor winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to preserve the UK's small concert spaces.
Fender was given the prize on 16 October as his new release the album was chosen as the best record of the past year.
He has decided to give the cash to the trust, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the performances I played around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," stated Sam Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these locations have permanently closed – about one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, top acts such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
Fender also joined in, generating over £100k on his live tour to assist 38 small stages across the UK.
The donation assisted locations that were dealing with imminent closure due to challenges arising from floods, fires and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations obtained funding support in upgrading amenities and gear that helped artists and fans.
"The concept that revenue from performances in major spaces helps the independent spots, where it all starts for performers like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to contribute his honor prize money to good deeds.
In the band received the prize in the mid-90s for their album the album, lead singer Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would donate their winnings to the organization War Child.
That year, artist the artist divided her award between multiple charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," the artist told the media.
Two years ago, they contributed their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their band, as well as other local music groups.
And winners that year they contributed their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Winning was sufficient," said artist Heather Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our success touched somebody else's life."
Last week, the trust shared it had saved several small stages in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The Joiners in the city and the second in the city were bought under the community ownership program, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who purchase "shares" in the buildings.
