The star has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to save the United Kingdom's grassroots live music spots.
Fender was given the award on 16 October as his new release the album was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
He has chosen to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role local spots had in his initial steps.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the shows I did around the area, and beyond, when I was starting out," remarked Sam Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these locations have ceased operations – about 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Recently, top acts such as the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by applying a modest fee to their ticket prices, which benefits local stages.
Fender also participated, raising over £100k on his live tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds assisted spaces that were confronting potential shutdown due to issues caused by floods, fires and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, conflicts and noise complaints.
Additional spaces were granted financial assistance in modernizing facilities and gear that positively impacted musicians and fans.
"The idea that money from performances in major spaces backs the local stages, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his honor funds to good deeds.
When they won the trophy in 1996 for their record their work, lead singer the singer stated that the act would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
During 2002, artist she divided her prize across a few organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," she explained to a publication.
Two years ago, they contributed their funds to the community center that developed their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year the group donated their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," remarked singer Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had rescued several grassroots venues in the South East, by placing them under community ownership.
One venue in that area and the second in Bristol were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is funded by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who acquire "shares" in the properties.
