The star has given the complete sum of his £25k Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the United Kingdom's grassroots live music spots.
The star was awarded the award on 16 October as his new release People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the trust, in appreciation of the crucial part local spots had in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I played around the region, and beyond, when I was just getting going," remarked the artist. "These locations are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
He also took part, raising over £100k on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across Britain.
The money assisted venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to challenges caused by floods, fires and bereavements, as well as permit problems, court cases and neighbor objections.
Some locations obtained funding support in upgrading infrastructure and gear that helped artists and fans.
"The idea that money from concerts in big venues backs the independent spots, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to give his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
Back when the band received the award in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite divided her prize across several charities, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," she shared with the media.
In recent years, they donated their winnings to the community center that developed their band, as well as other local music groups.
And the 1994 recipients M People gave their winnings to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," remarked singer the singer. "The cash was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the cake. So our success affected the lives of others."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had protected several small stages in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
The Joiners in Southampton and The Croft in that location were bought under the public acquisition program, which is funded by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
