The artist has given the complete sum of his £25,000 award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to save the UK's independent music venues.
He was given the award on October 16 as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the top album of the past year.
The musician has chosen to hand the money over to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues had in his early career.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the gigs I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, major artists including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its attempts to support the industry, by applying a small levy to their ticket prices, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also took part, generating in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support 38 grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds assisted venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues stemming from flooding, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Additional spaces received monetary aid in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted performers and audiences.
"The concept that money from performances in large arenas supports the local stages, where it all starts for performers like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to contribute his award funds to worthy causes.
When they won the prize in the mid-90s for their record Different Class, frontman the singer announced that the band would contribute their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
That year, artist she split her award between a few organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite shared with the media.
In recent years, the band gave their prize money to the community center that developed their band, alongside other independent music bodies.
And the 1994 recipients the group donated their award to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was diagnosed the illness.
"The victory was sufficient," remarked singer Heather Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the main prize. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust announced it had rescued two local spots in south-east England, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in the city and The Croft in the city were acquired under the community ownership initiative, which is backed by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who purchase "shares" in the venues.
