The star has handed over the entirety of his £25,000 honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
Fender was given the prize on mid-October as his third album the album was chosen as the best record of the past year.
The musician has decided to give the cash to the MVT, in recognition of the vital role small stages played in his initial steps.
"I would not have achieved this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these locations have ceased operations – about 16 percent of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which benefits local stages.
Sam Fender also participated, raising more than £100,000 on his live tour to help numerous local spots across the UK.
These funds assisted spaces that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties arising from floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces received monetary aid in improving amenities and gear that directly benefitted artists and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from performances in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
Fender is among several artists to donate his honor funds to good deeds.
When they earned the prize in the mid-90s for their record the album, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would give their cash to the charity the charity.
During 2002, rapper and singer she split her bounty among several good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I contributed a grand to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," she explained to outlets.
Previously, Ezra Collective contributed their prize money to the community center that supported their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Additionally winners that year the group gave their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was identified with the disease.
"Winning was ample," remarked singer Heather Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we could do without the extra, because we had the honor. So our victory affected the lives of others."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had rescued several local spots in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and the second in the city were purchased under the community ownership program, which is supported by a national body and music fans who purchase "shares" in the properties.
