The artist has donated the entirety of his £25,000 honor prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to preserve the Britain's independent music venues.
Fender was given the cheque on October 16 as his new release People Watching was named the best record of the last 12 months.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function local spots played in his early career.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing this success if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – approximately 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts including the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a small levy to their ticket prices, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his live tour to support 38 small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money assisted spaces that were dealing with imminent closure due to challenges stemming from water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in improving facilities and technical equipment that positively impacted artists and fans.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in big venues helps the independent spots, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
He is far from the only musician to contribute his Mercury Prize funds to good deeds.
Back when Pulp received the trophy in 1996 for their album their work, frontman Cocker declared that the band would contribute their winnings to the organization the charity.
That year, artist the artist shared her prize among a few good causes, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also donated a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," she shared with a publication.
In recent years, they contributed their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their act, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also 1994 winners the group donated their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," remarked singer the singer. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
Last week, the MVT shared it had rescued a couple of small stages in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and the second in the city were purchased under the public acquisition scheme, which is funded by the arts council and supporters who buy "shares" in the buildings.
