The star has donated the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to preserve the Britain's grassroots live music spots.
The star was given the cheque on 16 October as his new release the album was chosen as the top album of the last 12 months.
He has chosen to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role local spots had in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the North East, and beyond, when I was just getting going," stated Sam Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – about 16% of the total UK scene.
In the last year, major artists such as the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by including a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
Fender also joined in, generating more than £100,000 on his live tour to help numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds supported spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties arising from flooding, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted funding support in upgrading facilities and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from performances in large arenas supports the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just common sense," the star has said.
The musician is among several artists to give his Mercury Prize winnings to good deeds.
In the band received the trophy in 1996 for their album Different Class, lead singer Cocker stated that the act would give their winnings to the organization War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist shared her award across several charities, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
Two years ago, the band gave their prize money to the community center that supported their act, alongside other independent music bodies.
And winners that year they donated their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said vocalist Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the main prize. So our winning touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the trust revealed it had protected several grassroots venues in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
One venue in that area and The Croft in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who purchase "stakes" in the properties.
