The artist has handed over the complete sum of his £25,000 award winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to preserve the United Kingdom's independent music venues.
He was awarded the award on 16 October as his new release People Watching was named the top album of the last 12 months.
The musician has opted to donate the funds to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues fulfilled in his early career.
"I couldn't be pursuing my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I performed around the area, and further afield, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These venues are iconic, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these spaces have shut down – roughly 16% of the entire UK sector.
Recently, major artists such as Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits independent venues.
Fender also took part, generating more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support 38 local spots across the UK.
These funds helped venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by water damage, blazes and bereavements, as well as permit problems, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained funding support in improving infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that funds from shows in big venues backs the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has said.
He is far from the only musician to donate his honor funds to good deeds.
When they won the award in the year 1996 for their record the album, vocalist Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would give their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
That year, rapper and singer the artist shared her prize across a few organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," the artist explained to a publication.
Two years ago, they gave their funds to the youth organization that developed their band, as well as other local music groups.
Also winners that year M People gave their winnings to a MS organization after a acquaintance was found to have the condition.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," remarked artist the singer. "The prize was the cherry on top but we didn't require the extra, because we had the cake. So our success affected the lives of others."
Last week, the trust announced it had protected a couple of small stages in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and the other in Bristol were bought under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "stakes" in the properties.
