The star has given the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
Fender was presented with the award on 16 October as his third album the album was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
The musician has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated Sam Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts including the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a modest fee to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also joined in, generating more than £100,000 on his live tour to help 38 grassroots venues across Britain.
The money assisted venues that were confronting imminent closure due to difficulties stemming from floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted artists and audiences.
"The idea that funds from performances in big venues backs the local stages, where it begins for performers like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has said.
The musician is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to worthy causes.
When Pulp received the trophy in 1996 for their record the album, vocalist the singer announced that the act would donate their winnings to the charity the charity.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist shared her award among multiple charities, such as the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," the artist told the media.
Previously, they gave their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their act, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year the group gave their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was diagnosed the disease.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," stated singer Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the honor. So our success touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had rescued two local spots in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in that area and the other in that location were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by the arts council and enthusiasts who acquire "stakes" in the buildings.
