The star has donated the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the Britain's small music venues.
Fender was presented with the award on mid-October as his latest record his work was chosen as the best record of the last 12 months.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the trust, in recognition of the crucial part grassroots venues played in his initial steps.
"As an artist would not have achieved what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the performances I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These venues are legendary, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these locations have permanently closed – about 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Recently, well-known musicians like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by applying a modest fee to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
Fender also joined in, generating more than £100,000 on his live tour to assist 38 local spots across Britain.
The donation supported locations that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges stemming from water damage, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces received monetary aid in improving infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and fans.
"The concept that funds from shows in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has stated.
He is not the first artist to donate his Mercury Prize funds to charitable organizations.
Back when the band won the trophy in the mid-90s for their album the album, frontman the singer stated that the band would give their prize money to the charity War Child.
That year, artist the artist split her award across several organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also donated a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," the artist shared with the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their winnings to the local youth club that nurtured their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally the 1994 recipients M People contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was diagnosed the illness.
"Receiving the award was ample," remarked singer Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the main prize. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had rescued two grassroots venues in the South East, by placing them under community ownership.
One venue in that area and the second in Bristol were acquired under the community ownership program, which is funded by the arts council and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the properties.
