The artist has donated the entirety of his £25k award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
He was awarded the award on 16 October as his third album People Watching was chosen as the top album of the past year.
Fender has opted to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function local spots had in his initial steps.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was just getting going," remarked Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these venues have ceased operations – roughly one-sixth of the total UK scene.
In the last year, major artists like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its attempts to support the industry, by adding a small levy to their admission fees, which goes to help independent venues.
Fender also joined in, collecting over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to assist 38 local spots across the UK.
These funds assisted venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted funding support in upgrading facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The idea that funds from performances in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is among several artists to give his award funds to worthy causes.
In they won the prize in the mid-90s for their record their work, frontman the singer announced that the band would give their prize money to the charity War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist divided her award among a few organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a grand to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they required updated gear," Ms Dynamite explained to a publication.
Two years ago, the band donated their funds to the youth organization that nurtured their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
And 1994 winners the group contributed their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," stated vocalist the singer. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our success impacted somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust announced it had saved two grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and the other in the city were acquired under the community ownership scheme, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who buy "stakes" in the buildings.
