The star has given the complete sum of his £25k Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which works to save the UK's small music venues.
The star was presented with the cheque on 16 October as his new release People Watching was named the best record of the past year.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part small stages fulfilled in his early career.
"I personally would not have achieved my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the area, and further afield, when I was just getting going," stated Sam Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their ticket prices, which supports local stages.
Sam Fender also took part, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
These funds assisted spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, court cases and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted financial assistance in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that helped musicians and audiences.
"The idea that funds from shows in major spaces supports the independent spots, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," Fender has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his award prize money to charitable organizations.
In they earned the award in the year 1996 for their album the album, frontman the singer announced that the act would donate their prize money to the organization War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist divided her award across multiple organizations, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I contributed a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," she told a publication.
Previously, they contributed their prize money to the youth organization that developed their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year the group contributed their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was identified with the condition.
"The victory was quite enough," said singer Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the honor. So our victory impacted somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had rescued two small stages in south-east England, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The Joiners in that area and the second in that location were acquired under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the buildings.
