The star has donated the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was awarded the cheque on 16 October as his latest record the album was named the best record of the past year.
He has decided to hand the money over to the trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his initial steps.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, top acts like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support thirty-eight local spots across the UK.
The money helped locations that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges stemming from flooding, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, court cases and noise complaints.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from shows in big venues backs the independent spots, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has said.
He is among several artists to donate his Mercury Prize prize money to good deeds.
In they earned the trophy in 1996 for their release Different Class, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would give their cash to the non-profit the charity.
In 2002, artist Ms Dynamite split her prize across a few organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I donated a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," she shared with a publication.
Previously, they contributed their winnings to the community center that developed their act, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year the group gave their award to a MS organization after a friend was identified with the illness.
"Winning was ample," said vocalist the singer. "The money was the cherry on top but we could do without the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT announced it had protected two small stages in the South East, by placing them under public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who buy "shares" in the properties.
