The star has handed over the full amount of his £25k award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's independent concert spaces.
The star was given the cheque on 16 October as his latest record his work was named the best record of the last 12 months.
He has decided to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function local spots had in his initial steps.
"I personally would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the area, and beyond, when I was beginning," stated Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – about one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a small levy to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Sam Fender also took part, collecting over £100k on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across Britain.
The money assisted locations that were dealing with imminent closure due to difficulties arising from flooding, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in modernizing amenities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and audiences.
"The concept that money from concerts in big venues helps the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," the star has commented.
He is far from the only musician to donate his award prize money to charitable organizations.
In the band earned the award in 1996 for their album Different Class, lead singer the singer declared that the act would give their cash to the charity the charity.
During 2002, musician she split her prize among multiple organizations, such as the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I contributed a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," the artist told the media.
In recent years, the band contributed their winnings to the local youth club that nurtured their group, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally 1994 winners they gave their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was diagnosed the disease.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," said singer Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we could do without the cherry, because we had the cake. So our winning touched somebody else's life."
Last week, the trust revealed it had rescued a couple of small stages in south-east England, by placing them under public stewardship.
The first in that area and the other in Bristol were acquired under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
