The star has handed over the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the Britain's grassroots concert spaces.
He was given the cheque on 16 October as his third album People Watching was named the best record of the past year.
The musician has chosen to hand the money over to the trust, in appreciation of the crucial part local spots played in his early career.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing this success if it wasn't for all the shows I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated Sam Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these locations have permanently closed – approximately 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, major artists like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their ticket prices, which supports independent venues.
Fender also joined in, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help 38 grassroots venues across the UK.
The money supported spaces that were facing potential shutdown due to issues stemming from flooding, fires and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and noise complaints.
Additional spaces were granted financial assistance in modernizing amenities and technical equipment that helped performers and audiences.
"The concept that revenue from performances in major spaces supports the local stages, where it begins for artists like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
Fender is not the first artist to give his award winnings to charitable organizations.
When the band received the trophy in 1996 for their album the album, vocalist the singer announced that the band would donate their winnings to the organization the charity.
That year, musician the artist split her bounty between several good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," she explained to a publication.
Previously, Ezra Collective gave their prize money to the youth organization that developed their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year they contributed their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was identified with the condition.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said singer Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the main prize. So our success affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the trust shared it had rescued several grassroots venues in that region, by placing them under local control.
The first in Southampton and the second in that location were bought under the community ownership program, which is funded by a national body and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
