The artist has donated the entirety of his £25,000 honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the UK's independent music venues.
The star was awarded the award on mid-October as his latest record his work was chosen as the outstanding release of the past year.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the trust, in appreciation of the essential function local spots had in his beginning days.
"I wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the gigs I performed around the North East, and beyond, when I was beginning," said Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – roughly one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts including the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also took part, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to assist 38 small stages across the UK.
These funds supported venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties arising from water damage, fires and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and sound issues.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from performances in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
He is among several artists to contribute his honor winnings to worthy causes.
When the band earned the prize in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would contribute their winnings to the organization War Child.
In 2002, artist the artist split her bounty among a few good causes, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required new equipment," she told outlets.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their winnings to the community center that developed their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Also 1994 winners M People donated their award to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the condition.
"The victory was sufficient," stated vocalist Small. "The money was the bonus but we could do without the bonus, because we had the honor. So our success impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the trust announced it had saved two grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The first in that area and the second in Bristol were bought under the community ownership program, which is funded by the arts council and supporters who buy "shares" in the properties.
