The star has given the full amount of his £25k Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the Britain's independent live music spots.
He was awarded the award on mid-October as his latest record the album was named the top album of the past year.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function local spots played in his early career.
"I personally would not have achieved my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," remarked the artist. "These venues are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have permanently closed – roughly 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a modest fee to their ticket prices, which goes to help independent venues.
Sam Fender also participated, generating over £100k on his live tour to assist 38 grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds supported spaces that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges caused by flooding, fires and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues obtained financial assistance in improving amenities and technical equipment that positively impacted artists and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from shows in large arenas supports the local stages, where it all starts for performers like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to donate his Mercury Prize funds to charitable organizations.
When Pulp earned the trophy in the year 1996 for their album Different Class, frontman the singer stated that the band would donate their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
In 2002, musician Ms Dynamite split her prize across several charities, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite told the media.
Previously, Ezra Collective contributed their winnings to the local youth club that nurtured their group, as well as other local music groups.
Also 1994 winners the group contributed their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," said singer Heather Small. "The prize was the extra but we could do without the extra, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved two grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to local control.
The first in that area and the second in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is backed by a national body and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
