The artist has given the full amount of his £25k Mercury Prize prize money to the trust for venues, which operates to save the United Kingdom's small live music spots.
Fender was given the prize on 16 October as his third album the album was chosen as the top album of the past year.
He has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally wouldn't be doing this success if it wasn't for all the shows I performed around the North East, and beyond, when I was just getting going," said Sam Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – about 16% of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, top acts like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to support the industry, by applying a modest fee to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
He also joined in, collecting more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
The donation helped spaces that were facing imminent closure due to challenges stemming from floods, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as permit problems, court cases and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted financial assistance in modernizing facilities and technical equipment that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from performances in big venues helps the independent spots, where it begins for performers like me, is just logical," the star has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to give his Mercury Prize funds to good deeds.
When the band received the award in the year 1996 for their release their work, frontman the singer announced that the band would donate their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
That year, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite shared her prize between a few good causes, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I donated a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," she explained to the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their winnings to the local youth club that nurtured their band, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year they donated their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was diagnosed the illness.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," said singer the singer. "The prize was the bonus but we could do without the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had protected several local spots in that region, by transferring them to local control.
The first in that area and The Croft in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.
