The artist has donated the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the MVT, which operates to preserve the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
He was presented with the award on mid-October as his new release the album was declared the top album of the past year.
He has opted to give the cash to the MVT, in recognition of the vital role local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the North East, and beyond, when I was starting out," said Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – about 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
Sam Fender also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
The donation assisted locations that were confronting imminent closure due to challenges arising from floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, conflicts and sound issues.
Some locations received funding support in upgrading infrastructure and gear that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from performances in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has commented.
He is far from the only musician to give his award funds to worthy causes.
In they won the trophy in the year 1996 for their record the album, lead singer the singer declared that the act would contribute their cash to the organization War Child.
That year, musician the artist shared her bounty across several good causes, such as the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I contributed a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," she shared with outlets.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective donated their winnings to the local youth club that supported their band, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year the group contributed their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," remarked vocalist Small. "The money was the bonus but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning touched another person's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved two small stages in the South East, by placing them under local control.
The first in the city and the second in the city were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is backed by the arts council and music fans who purchase "ownership units" in the properties.
