The star has given the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the Britain's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was presented with the cheque on October 16 as his new release his work was chosen as the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
Fender has chosen to hand the money over to the MVT, in appreciation of the vital role grassroots venues had in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it weren't for all the shows I played around the North East, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These venues are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these venues have permanently closed – approximately 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, major artists like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to support the industry, by applying a small levy to their ticket prices, which benefits independent venues.
Fender also participated, collecting over £100k on his live tour to support thirty-eight grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds helped spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges arising from water damage, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Additional spaces received funding support in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from concerts in big venues supports the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to give his honor winnings to good deeds.
In the band received the prize in the year 1996 for their release their work, vocalist Cocker stated that the band would donate their winnings to the non-profit the charity.
In 2002, rapper and singer she split her bounty across a few organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they required new equipment," Ms Dynamite shared with a publication.
Two years ago, they contributed their prize money to the community center that nurtured their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also the 1994 recipients M People donated their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was found to have the condition.
"Winning was sufficient," stated singer Heather Small. "The prize was the cherry on top but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the cake. So our winning impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the trust shared it had rescued a couple of local spots in the South East, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the other in Bristol were acquired under the public acquisition initiative, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who purchase "ownership units" in the buildings.
