The star has given the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
He was given the award on October 16 as his latest record his work was chosen as the top album of the past year.
He has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the shows I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," said Sam Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting more than £100,000 on his live tour to help 38 grassroots venues across the UK.
The donation supported spaces that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues arising from floods, fires and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in upgrading amenities and gear that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from performances in big venues helps the smaller venues, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," Fender has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his honor prize money to good deeds.
Back when the band earned the award in 1996 for their record Different Class, vocalist Jarvis Cocker stated that the group would give their cash to the organization the charity.
That year, rapper and singer she shared her bounty between multiple good causes, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they needed new equipment," the artist explained to outlets.
In recent years, they gave their prize money to the youth organization that supported their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also 1994 winners they gave their winnings to a MS organization after a friend was found to have the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," stated vocalist the singer. "The money was the bonus but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our winning affected another person's life."
In the past week, the trust announced it had rescued several small stages in south-east England, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in that area and the second in Bristol were acquired under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who acquire "stakes" in the venues.
