The star has handed over the complete sum of his £25,000 honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to save the UK's independent concert spaces.
The star was presented with the award on 16 October as his latest record the album was chosen as the top album of the past year.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages played in his initial steps.
"I personally would not have achieved this success if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the area, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these venues have ceased operations – approximately one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Recently, top acts like the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by adding a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
He also participated, generating in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to assist 38 grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds assisted spaces that were facing possible closure due to difficulties arising from floods, fires and personal losses, as well as permit problems, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues received financial assistance in modernizing amenities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and fans.
"The notion that funds from concerts in large arenas helps the independent spots, where it begins for musicians like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
He is far from the only musician to give his award funds to good deeds.
When Pulp won the prize in 1996 for their release Different Class, vocalist Cocker announced that the group would give their winnings to the charity War Child.
That year, artist Ms Dynamite split her prize among several charities, 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 younger and they lacked new equipment," she told the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the youth organization that developed their act, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally 1994 winners the group gave their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"Winning was sufficient," said vocalist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our winning touched another person's life."
Last week, the trust revealed it had saved several small stages in south-east England, by bringing them into local control.
One venue in that area and The Croft in Bristol were bought under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "shares" in the buildings.
