The star has given the entirety of his £25k Mercury Prize cash to the trust for venues, which operates to protect the Britain's independent music venues.
The star was presented with the cheque on 16 October as his third album the album was chosen as the best record of the previous year.
Fender has opted to give the cash to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing my current career if it wasn't for all the performances I performed around the North East, and beyond, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by adding a modest fee to their ticket prices, which supports independent venues.
He also joined in, generating more than £100,000 on his recent tour to support thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
The donation helped spaces that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties caused by floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues were granted financial assistance in modernizing amenities and technical equipment that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The notion that money from performances in big venues helps the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is among several artists to donate his honor prize money to worthy causes.
When the band earned the prize in 1996 for their record Different Class, frontman the singer stated that the band would contribute their winnings to the organization War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite split her bounty among several organizations, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," the artist told outlets.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective donated their winnings to the community center that supported their group, in addition to other local music groups.
Additionally winners that year the group gave their winnings to a MS organization after a acquaintance was found to have the condition.
"The victory was quite enough," said vocalist Small. "The money was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had rescued a couple of small stages in that region, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and The Croft in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who buy "stakes" in the venues.
