The artist has given the entirety of his £25k Mercury Prize prize money to the trust for venues, which works to save the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
The star was awarded the prize on October 16 as his latest record the album was chosen as the best record of the previous year.
The musician has opted to donate the funds to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function local spots played in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I played around the area, and beyond, when I was beginning," stated Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – about 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its initiatives to support the industry, by applying a modest fee to their admission fees, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also joined in, generating more than £100,000 on his recent tour to help thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported spaces that were facing potential shutdown due to issues arising from floods, fires and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and sound issues.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in upgrading facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that revenue from concerts in major spaces supports the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to contribute his Mercury Prize prize money to worthy causes.
When Pulp won the trophy in the mid-90s for their album their work, lead singer the singer declared that the band would give their prize money to the organization War Child.
During 2002, musician the artist split her award across several organizations, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," she explained to the media.
In recent years, the band donated their prize money to the community center that supported their band, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year the group gave their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said artist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we could do without the cherry, because we had the honor. So our winning affected another person's life."
In the past week, the MVT shared it had rescued two local spots in south-east England, by placing them under local control.
The Joiners in that area and the second in the city were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who purchase "shares" in the buildings.
