The star has donated the full amount of his £25k Mercury Prize prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the Britain's small live music spots.
The star was given the prize on mid-October as his new release People Watching was named the top album of the previous year.
He has opted to donate the funds to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part local spots had in his beginning days.
"I personally wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I did around the region, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated Sam Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these venues have permanently closed – roughly 16% of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by adding a small levy to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Fender also took part, generating over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across Britain.
The donation assisted spaces that were facing possible closure due to challenges arising from water damage, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Other venues obtained monetary aid in modernizing amenities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that funds from concerts in big venues helps the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to give his Mercury Prize funds to worthy causes.
Back when Pulp received the award in the year 1996 for their album the album, frontman Cocker announced that the act would contribute their cash to the non-profit War Child.
In 2002, artist the artist shared her bounty among a few organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also contributed a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," she told a publication.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their funds to the local youth club that developed their act, in addition to other local music groups.
Also winners that year the group contributed their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.
"Winning was sufficient," stated singer Heather Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved two grassroots venues in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in that area and the other in the city were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who purchase "shares" in the buildings.