The star has given the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound Mercury Prize prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the UK's independent live music spots.
Fender was presented with the prize on mid-October as his new release his work was chosen as the best record of the last 12 months.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part grassroots venues fulfilled in his initial steps.
"I personally would not have achieved this success if it weren't for all the gigs I performed around the region, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, major artists including Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by adding a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, raising over £100k on his live tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted venues that were confronting imminent closure due to issues stemming from floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Other venues received funding support in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The idea that money from concerts in large arenas backs the local stages, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has said.
The musician is far from the only musician to donate his award prize money to worthy causes.
Back when Pulp won the award in the year 1996 for their album Different Class, vocalist the singer declared that the band would donate their winnings to the organization War Child.
That year, artist she shared her prize between a few charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also donated a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," the artist told outlets.
In recent years, the band donated their winnings to the community center that nurtured their act, as well as other local music groups.
Additionally winners that year they donated their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was diagnosed the disease.
"Winning was quite enough," said singer Heather Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the honor. So our success affected the lives of others."
Recently, the trust revealed it had protected a couple of local spots in that region, by bringing them into local control.
The Joiners in that area and The Croft in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by a national body and enthusiasts who buy "ownership units" in the properties.
