The artist has handed over the full amount of his £25k award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to save the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
Fender was awarded the award on 16 October as his third album the album was declared the best record of the previous year.
Fender has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the crucial part grassroots venues had in his initial steps.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated the artist. "These spaces are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these venues have permanently closed – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts including Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
Sam Fender also took part, collecting more than £100,000 on his live tour to help thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported spaces that were facing potential shutdown due to challenges arising from flooding, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Other venues received monetary aid in upgrading facilities and technical equipment that helped performers and fans.
"The concept that revenue from concerts in large arenas helps the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just logical," the star has commented.
He is not the first artist to contribute his honor funds to charitable organizations.
Back when the band won the award in 1996 for their record their work, vocalist Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would contribute their cash to the organization War Child.
That year, rapper and singer the artist divided her prize between a few organizations, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they required new equipment," Ms Dynamite explained to the media.
In recent years, the band gave their winnings to the community center that developed their group, in addition to other independent music bodies.
And 1994 winners they contributed their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was diagnosed the illness.
"The victory was sufficient," remarked artist Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our success impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the trust announced it had protected several grassroots venues in south-east England, by transferring them to public stewardship.
One venue in the city and the other in the city were acquired under the public acquisition scheme, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "shares" in the venues.
