The artist has handed over the complete sum of his £25,000 Mercury Prize prize money to the trust for venues, which functions to save the UK's grassroots live music spots.
The star was awarded the award on mid-October as his new release the album was chosen as the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role grassroots venues fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the North East, and further afield, when I was starting out," said Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its efforts to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, generating in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across the UK.
These funds supported spaces that were confronting imminent closure due to difficulties caused by floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Some locations obtained monetary aid in upgrading facilities and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and fans.
"The notion that revenue from shows in large arenas helps the local stages, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is far from the only musician to contribute his award funds to worthy causes.
When the band earned the prize in the year 1996 for their release their work, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would donate their prize money to the charity the charity.
That year, artist the artist divided her bounty between several charities, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite explained to outlets.
In recent years, they donated their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Additionally winners that year they contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was found to have the illness.
"Receiving the award was ample," remarked singer the singer. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had protected two small stages in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The Joiners in the city and the second in that location were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by a national body and music fans who purchase "stakes" in the venues.
