The star has given the entirety of his £25k honor cash to the trust for venues, which works to protect the Britain's small music venues.
He was presented with the award on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the best record of the last 12 months.
Fender has chosen to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function small stages played in his early career.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was just getting going," said the artist. "These venues are legendary, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these locations have ceased operations – roughly 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 support the industry, by applying a modest fee to their admission fees, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting over £100k on his live tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation helped venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to difficulties stemming from floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from performances in big venues supports the independent spots, where it begins for performers like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has said.
He is far from the only musician to donate his award winnings to good deeds.
When they earned the award in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, vocalist Cocker declared that the act would give their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, musician she shared her prize between a few organizations, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I donated a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they required new equipment," the artist shared with outlets.
Two years ago, they contributed their funds to the youth organization that nurtured their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also the 1994 recipients M People donated their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"Receiving the award was ample," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the cake. So our victory impacted somebody else's life."
Recently, the trust announced it had saved a couple of local spots in the South East, by transferring them to local control.
The Joiners in Southampton and the second in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the properties.
