The star has given the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize prize money to the MVT, which works to preserve the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was given the award on October 16 as his new release the album was chosen as the best record of the last 12 months.
Fender has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function local spots had in his early career.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the North East, and beyond, when I was just getting going," said Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – roughly 16% of the total UK scene.
In the last year, major artists including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its efforts to support the industry, by applying a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Fender also took part, generating more than £100,000 on his recent tour to help numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds helped venues that were confronting possible closure due to difficulties stemming from floods, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that helped musicians and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from performances in major spaces helps the smaller venues, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
He is not the first artist to donate his award funds to worthy causes.
Back when they won the trophy in 1996 for their album the album, vocalist the singer announced that the group would contribute their cash to the non-profit War Child.
That year, rapper and singer she divided her award between several charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also donated a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," she explained to a publication.
In recent years, the band donated their winnings to the youth organization that supported their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year M People contributed their prize to a MS organization after a acquaintance was diagnosed the disease.
"Receiving the award was ample," said singer the singer. "The prize was the cherry on top but we could do without the bonus, because we had the honor. So our winning touched another person's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had rescued several local spots in that region, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The Joiners in that area and the second in Bristol were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
