The artist has given the complete sum of his £25,000 honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
He was awarded the award on 16 October as his latest record his work was declared the outstanding release of the past year.
The musician has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the vital role local spots played in his early career.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I did around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," said Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its attempts to support the industry, by including a modest fee to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
Sam Fender also joined in, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help thirty-eight local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted locations that were facing potential shutdown due to issues arising from flooding, fires and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Some locations obtained funding support in upgrading amenities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted artists and fans.
"The concept that money from concerts in big venues supports the independent spots, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is among several artists to give his honor prize money to worthy causes.
Back when Pulp earned the prize in the mid-90s for their record their work, lead singer Jarvis Cocker declared that the group would give their prize money to the organization War Child.
During 2002, musician the artist divided her bounty across a few good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I donated a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," she explained to a publication.
In recent years, they contributed their winnings to the youth organization that supported their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Additionally 1994 winners the group contributed their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was found to have the illness.
"Winning was quite enough," said vocalist Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't require the extra, because we had the honor. So our success affected the lives of others."
In the past week, the MVT revealed it had protected several local spots in south-east England, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the other in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition scheme, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who acquire "shares" in the buildings.
