The star has donated the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the Britain's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was presented with the cheque on 16 October as his third album his work was named the outstanding release of the past year.
Fender has opted to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues had in his initial steps.
"As an artist would not have achieved this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these venues have ceased operations – approximately 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts including the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by including a modest fee to their ticket costs, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Fender also participated, generating in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support 38 small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money assisted locations that were facing potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from flooding, fires and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted funding support in upgrading infrastructure and gear that directly benefitted performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that revenue from concerts in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just logical," the star has said.
He is not the first artist to give his Mercury Prize prize money to good deeds.
In they earned the prize in 1996 for their record their work, lead singer Cocker announced that the band would give their winnings to the charity the charity.
That year, musician Ms Dynamite split her bounty between a few charities, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," the artist explained to the media.
Previously, the band donated their winnings to the community center that nurtured their group, alongside other local music groups.
And winners that year the group gave their prize to a MS organization after a friend was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," said singer Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our winning touched another person's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved two grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
One venue in that area and The Croft in the city were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by a national body and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.
