The star has donated the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound Mercury Prize winnings to the trust for venues, which works to protect the UK's small music venues.
The star was awarded the award on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the best record of the previous year.
The musician has chosen to donate the funds to the trust, in recognition of the essential function local spots fulfilled in his early career.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these locations have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, major artists such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its attempts to support the industry, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits independent venues.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support numerous small stages across the UK.
The money supported locations that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges stemming from floods, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces received financial assistance in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and fans.
"The idea that funds from performances in major spaces helps the smaller venues, where it begins for performers like me, is just logical," Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to give his award prize money to worthy causes.
When the band earned the award in the year 1996 for their release Different Class, frontman the singer declared that the band would contribute their cash to the non-profit War Child.
That year, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite split her prize between several charities, such as the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they required new equipment," she explained to the media.
In recent years, the band donated their funds to the local youth club that developed their group, alongside other independent music bodies.
Also the 1994 recipients the group donated their award to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was diagnosed the condition.
"The victory was sufficient," stated singer Heather Small. "The cash was the bonus but we could do without the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted another person's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust announced it had protected a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in that area and The Croft in that location were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by a national body and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.
