The artist has donated the entirety of his £25k award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the Britain's independent live music spots.
He was awarded the prize on 16 October as his latest record the album was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
Fender has chosen to donate the funds to the trust, in appreciation of the crucial part grassroots venues had in his early career.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing this success if it weren't for all the gigs I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These locations are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – roughly 16% of the entire UK sector.
Recently, top acts including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by adding a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
Fender also took part, generating in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous small stages across the UK.
These funds helped venues that were facing imminent closure due to issues arising from water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Other venues were granted monetary aid in modernizing amenities and gear that positively impacted musicians and audiences.
"The concept that money from performances in big venues supports the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to contribute his award prize money to charitable organizations.
When Pulp won the trophy in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, frontman Cocker announced that the band would contribute their winnings to the non-profit the charity.
That year, artist the artist split her bounty among several good causes, like the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I donated a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told outlets.
In recent years, the band contributed their funds to the community center that supported their act, alongside other independent music bodies.
Also 1994 winners the group donated their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"The victory was ample," said singer Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the honor. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had rescued several small stages in that region, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The first in the city and the other in that location were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who buy "stakes" in the properties.
