The star has given the complete sum of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the trust for venues, which functions to preserve the UK's small live music spots.
Fender was presented with the prize on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was declared the best record of the last 12 months.
The musician has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing this success if it wasn't for all the performances I did around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these locations have permanently closed – about 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Recently, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a small levy to their admission fees, which supports smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, generating over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money assisted venues that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties arising from water damage, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in upgrading infrastructure and gear that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from performances in major spaces supports the independent spots, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has said.
He is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
Back when Pulp earned the prize in the year 1996 for their release the album, frontman Cocker stated that the act would donate their prize money to the charity the charity.
In 2002, artist Ms Dynamite split her award between several organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed new equipment," the artist told the media.
In recent years, they donated their prize money to the local youth club that developed their group, alongside other local music groups.
Also the 1994 recipients they contributed their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," stated artist Heather Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted somebody else's life."
Last week, the MVT revealed it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in south-east England, by placing them under local control.
One venue in Southampton and the second in Bristol were bought under the community ownership scheme, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the buildings.
