The artist has given the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to preserve the United Kingdom's independent concert spaces.
The star was presented with the cheque on 16 October as his third album People Watching was named the top album of the last 12 months.
He has decided to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues played in his initial steps.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it weren't for all the gigs I performed around the region, and beyond, when I was starting out," remarked Sam Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – about 16% of the total UK scene.
Recently, top acts such as the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their ticket costs, which supports independent venues.
Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help numerous local spots across Britain.
These funds helped venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to issues stemming from water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Some locations received funding support in improving amenities and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and audiences.
"The concept that revenue from shows in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has said.
The musician is among several artists to donate his award prize money to charitable organizations.
In Pulp won the prize in 1996 for their release Different Class, vocalist Cocker declared that the act would donate their winnings to the organization the charity.
In 2002, musician she divided her prize across several charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I gave a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," she told the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their band, in addition to other local music groups.
Also winners that year the group contributed their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," remarked artist Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the honor. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the MVT announced it had protected several small stages in that region, by placing them under public stewardship.
One venue in that area and The Croft in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who acquire "shares" in the properties.
