The star has donated the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the UK's small music venues.
The star was given the award on 16 October as his new release his work was declared the outstanding release of the past year.
Fender has chosen to donate the funds to the trust, in recognition of the crucial part grassroots venues played in his initial steps.
"I would not have achieved what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the performances I played around the area, and further afield, when I was beginning," said Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have ceased operations – roughly one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support 38 grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported venues that were facing imminent closure due to challenges arising from floods, fires and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in upgrading amenities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from performances in large arenas helps the independent spots, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his award funds to worthy causes.
When the band received the award in the mid-90s for their release the album, lead singer Cocker stated that the band would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
In 2002, artist the artist divided her bounty across a few organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to a publication.
In recent years, they gave their funds to the youth organization that developed their act, as well as other local music groups.
And the 1994 recipients they contributed their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the illness.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," remarked vocalist the singer. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had saved two small stages in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
The Joiners in the city and the second in that location were acquired under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who purchase "stakes" in the venues.
