The artist has donated the complete sum of his £25,000 honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the Britain's small concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the prize on 16 October as his third album the album was named the top album of the last 12 months.
Fender has opted to donate the funds to the trust, in recognition of the essential function local spots fulfilled in his early career.
"I personally would not have achieved my current career if it weren't for all the gigs I played around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," said Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – about 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, top acts such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also joined in, raising in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to assist 38 local spots across Britain.
The money assisted venues that were facing possible closure due to issues caused by water damage, fires and bereavements, as well as permit problems, court cases and noise complaints.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in upgrading infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from performances in major spaces backs the local stages, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
The musician is far from the only musician to donate his honor prize money to worthy causes.
When Pulp won the trophy in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker stated that the band would donate their winnings to the non-profit the charity.
During 2002, musician Ms Dynamite shared her award among several organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I contributed a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
In recent years, they contributed their funds to the youth organization that nurtured their band, in addition to other local music groups.
Also the 1994 recipients M People contributed their prize to a MS organization after a acquaintance was found to have the condition.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had rescued a couple of grassroots venues in south-east England, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The Joiners in Southampton and the other in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by a national body and supporters who buy "shares" in the buildings.
