The artist has handed over the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
He was presented with the cheque on 16 October as his third album his work was chosen as the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
He has decided to hand the money over to the trust, in recognition of the essential function local spots played in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing this success if it wasn't for all the performances I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits local stages.
Fender also joined in, generating in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to support 38 grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money helped venues that were facing potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by flooding, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and noise complaints.
Some locations received monetary aid in upgrading infrastructure and gear that directly benefitted performers and fans.
"The concept that funds from performances in large arenas helps the smaller venues, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
The musician is not the first artist to donate his award winnings to charitable organizations.
In the band won the prize in 1996 for their album the album, vocalist the singer declared that the band would give their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
That year, rapper and singer she divided her award among multiple good causes, such as the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they required better apparatus," the artist shared with outlets.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their winnings to the local youth club that supported their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year the group gave their award to a MS organization after a friend was diagnosed the disease.
"Winning was quite enough," remarked vocalist Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success touched the lives of others."
Recently, the MVT announced it had protected a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The Joiners in the city and the other in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "shares" in the venues.
