The star has donated the entirety of his £25,000 award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to preserve the UK's grassroots live music spots.
Fender was presented with the award on 16 October as his latest record the album was declared the top album of the previous year.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the trust, in recognition of the crucial part small stages played in his early career.
"I personally would not have achieved this success if it weren't for all the shows I did around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated Sam Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have permanently closed – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Recently, major artists like Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his live tour to help 38 small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation helped locations that were confronting imminent closure due to difficulties stemming from flooding, fires and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted funding support in upgrading amenities and sound and lighting systems that helped artists and fans.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
He is far from the only musician to give his award funds to charitable organizations.
When the band received the prize in the year 1996 for their album their work, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would contribute their cash to the non-profit War Child.
That year, rapper and singer the artist shared her prize across multiple organizations, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also contributed a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," she explained to the media.
In recent years, they donated their funds to the community center that developed their band, alongside other local music groups.
Also the 1994 recipients M People contributed their winnings to a MS organization after a acquaintance was found to have the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," said singer the singer. "The money was the bonus but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our victory touched another person's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had rescued a couple of local spots in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The Joiners in that area and The Croft in the city were acquired under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
