The artist has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the United Kingdom's independent concert spaces.
He was awarded the prize on 16 October as his third album the album was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has decided to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function local spots played in his early career.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing this success if it wasn't for all the performances I played around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," said Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – about 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Recently, well-known musicians including the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
He also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted venues that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges arising from floods, fires and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Some locations obtained financial assistance in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that helped artists and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from shows in large arenas helps the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
He is far from the only musician to give his honor funds to good deeds.
Back when the band received the award in the mid-90s for their release the album, frontman Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would give their winnings to the organization War Child.
That year, artist the artist divided her bounty across a few organizations, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I contributed a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," she shared with a publication.
Previously, they donated their prize money to the local youth club that nurtured their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year M People donated their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the disease.
"Winning was sufficient," remarked artist the singer. "The cash was the cherry on top but we could do without the bonus, because we had the cake. So our success impacted the lives of others."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had protected two small stages in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
One venue in the city and the other in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition scheme, which is funded by the arts council and enthusiasts who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
