The artist has given the entirety of his £25,000 award cash to the MVT, which functions to preserve the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was given the cheque on mid-October as his latest record his work was named the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
He has decided to donate the funds to the trust, in recognition of the crucial part grassroots venues fulfilled in his initial steps.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the shows I did around the North East, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – approximately 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts such as the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a small levy to their ticket prices, which benefits local stages.
Fender also took part, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds helped spaces that were confronting possible closure due to challenges arising from floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that directly benefitted performers and audiences.
"The concept that money from performances in large arenas supports the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has commented.
The musician is among several artists to give his Mercury Prize funds to good deeds.
When the band won the trophy in the year 1996 for their record their work, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would give their prize money to the organization the charity.
During 2002, musician she shared her award between a few good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed updated gear," the artist shared with a publication.
Two years ago, the band gave their funds to the community center that nurtured their group, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year the group donated their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said singer Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
In the past week, the MVT shared it had saved two small stages in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
One venue in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the properties.
