The artist has handed over the complete sum of his £25,000 award winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to preserve the UK's grassroots music venues.
He was awarded the award on October 16 as his latest record the album was chosen as the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his initial steps.
"As an artist would not have achieved what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the region, and beyond, when I was just getting going," said Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these locations have ceased operations – approximately one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Recently, top acts including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to support the industry, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to support thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds helped locations that were facing potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from water damage, blazes and personal losses, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and sound issues.
Some locations obtained monetary aid in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted performers and concertgoers.
"The idea that revenue from concerts in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is among several artists to contribute his award prize money to charitable organizations.
When the band earned the prize in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, frontman the singer announced that the act would contribute their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, artist she split her prize among multiple organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite told the media.
Two years ago, they gave their prize money to the local youth club that developed their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year the group contributed their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"The victory was ample," said artist Small. "The money was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the trust shared it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
The Joiners in the city and the second in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition scheme, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
