The artist has donated the entirety of his £25k award winnings to the trust for venues, which works to protect the United Kingdom's independent music venues.
He was given the prize on 16 October as his third album the album was chosen as the best record of the last 12 months.
The musician has decided to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function local spots played in his initial steps.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated the artist. "These venues are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, top acts such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to support the industry, by adding a small levy to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
Sam Fender also joined in, generating in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help numerous local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation helped locations that were confronting imminent closure due to issues stemming from water damage, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in improving infrastructure and gear that directly benefitted artists and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in large arenas helps the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to donate his honor prize money to worthy causes.
In Pulp received the award in 1996 for their record Different Class, lead singer Jarvis Cocker stated that the act would give their cash to the non-profit the charity.
That year, artist she divided her award across a few organizations, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to the center, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they needed new equipment," she explained to the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the youth organization that nurtured their band, alongside other local music groups.
And winners that year M People gave their award to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the illness.
"Winning was sufficient," said vocalist Heather Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our victory touched the lives of others."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had saved several small stages in the South East, by transferring them to local control.
The first in the city and The Croft in the city were bought under the public acquisition program, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "shares" in the properties.
