The artist has given the complete sum of his £25k award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to preserve the Britain's small live music spots.
He was presented with the cheque on October 16 as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the best record of the previous year.
He has opted to hand the money over to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues played in his early career.
"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the performances I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," said Sam Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – roughly one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Recently, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their ticket costs, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also took part, raising more than £100,000 on his live tour to support numerous small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from water damage, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues received funding support in modernizing infrastructure and gear that positively impacted artists and concertgoers.
"The notion that money from performances in large arenas backs the local stages, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just common sense," the star has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to contribute his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
In Pulp received the award in 1996 for their album the album, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would contribute their winnings to the charity War Child.
During 2002, artist the artist shared her bounty across several organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also donated a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," she explained to the media.
Two years ago, they gave their winnings to the community center that developed their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year M People donated their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was ample," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the cherry on top but we could do without the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success touched the lives of others."
Last week, the trust shared it had protected several grassroots venues in that region, by placing them under local control.
The Joiners in that area and the other in Bristol were bought under the community ownership program, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
