The star has donated the entirety of his £25k honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's small music venues.
He was awarded the cheque on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was named the best record of the past year.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the MVT, in appreciation of the vital role small stages played in his early career.
"I would not have achieved what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the performances I performed around the region, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated Sam Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these locations have permanently closed – approximately 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, major artists including Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its attempts to support the industry, by adding a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his live tour to assist numerous small stages across the UK.
The money assisted venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges caused by water damage, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces received monetary aid in upgrading facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from concerts in big venues backs the local stages, where it begins for musicians like me, is just logical," the star has said.
The musician is not the first artist to contribute his honor prize money to charitable organizations.
Back when the band earned the prize in the mid-90s for their album their work, frontman Cocker announced that the act would donate their cash to the charity the charity.
During 2002, musician the artist split her prize across a few good causes, such as the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they required better apparatus," the artist told a publication.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective contributed their prize money to the local youth club that nurtured their band, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year the group contributed their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was found to have the disease.
"Winning was sufficient," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our success touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT announced it had saved two grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
One venue in Southampton and the other in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition scheme, which is backed by the arts council and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
