The artist has given the complete sum of his £25k honor cash to the trust for venues, which functions to preserve the United Kingdom's small music venues.
Fender was awarded the prize on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
He has decided to donate the funds to the trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part small stages had in his initial steps.
"I personally wouldn't be doing this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," said Fender. "These spaces are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – roughly one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by adding a modest fee to their ticket costs, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, raising in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous local spots across Britain.
The money supported venues that were confronting imminent closure due to challenges caused by water damage, fires and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that helped artists and audiences.
"The idea that money from shows in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for artists like me, is just logical," Fender has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to give his honor funds to charitable organizations.
In the band won the award in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, frontman Cocker stated that the act would donate their winnings to the non-profit the charity.
During 2002, rapper and singer she shared her bounty between a few good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
Previously, the band contributed their funds to the youth organization that developed their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year the group gave their winnings to a MS organization after a acquaintance was identified with the condition.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," said artist the singer. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the cake. So our victory touched another person's life."
Last week, the trust shared it had saved several small stages in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
The Joiners in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition program, which is funded by the arts council and enthusiasts who acquire "shares" in the venues.
