The star has donated the full amount of his £25,000 award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to preserve the Britain's grassroots concert spaces.
He was awarded the cheque on October 16 as his new release his work was declared the best record of the past year.
Fender has opted to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues had in his early career.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I did around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these locations have shut down – about one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, major artists such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their ticket prices, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
He also took part, generating over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous small stages across Britain.
The money assisted spaces that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges arising from floods, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and sound issues.
Some locations obtained funding support in modernizing facilities and technical equipment that directly benefitted artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from performances in large arenas backs the independent spots, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his honor funds to worthy causes.
When they received the prize in the mid-90s for their release the album, frontman Cocker stated that the group would contribute their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
In 2002, musician she split her award across several charities, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I contributed a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they needed new equipment," she shared with outlets.
Previously, the band contributed their funds to the local youth club that nurtured their band, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year M People donated their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was found to have the illness.
"The victory was quite enough," remarked singer Small. "The money was the bonus but we could do without the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the trust shared it had protected two grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The first in the city and the other in that location were bought under the community ownership initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "stakes" in the properties.