The artist has donated the complete sum of his £25k honor cash to the trust for venues, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's independent music venues.
The star was awarded the prize on mid-October as his latest record his work was declared the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
He has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the vital role small stages fulfilled in his initial steps.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the area, and beyond, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, major artists like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its efforts to support the industry, by adding a modest fee to their ticket costs, which supports local stages.
Sam Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his live tour to support numerous grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds supported locations that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges stemming from water damage, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Other venues received financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and audiences.
"The notion that money from concerts in major spaces helps the smaller venues, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
He is not the first artist to contribute his honor winnings to good deeds.
Back when Pulp won the trophy in 1996 for their record Different Class, vocalist Jarvis Cocker stated that the group would donate their prize money to the non-profit the charity.
In 2002, musician she divided her prize across a few charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I gave a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," the artist told a publication.
Previously, Ezra Collective gave their prize money to the youth organization that nurtured their band, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year they contributed their winnings to a MS organization after a acquaintance was diagnosed the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," said artist Heather Small. "The prize was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the cake. So our victory touched another person's life."
Recently, the trust announced it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and the other in that location were purchased under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the buildings.
