The star has donated the entirety of his £25,000 honor prize money to the trust for venues, which works to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
Fender was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his third album his work was declared the top album of the previous year.
He has chosen to donate the funds to the trust, in appreciation of the essential function small stages played in his beginning days.
"I personally would not have achieved this success if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – about 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a modest fee to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also took part, collecting more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds helped locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to issues caused by floods, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and sound issues.
Some locations received financial assistance in improving facilities and gear that helped artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from performances in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just sensible," Fender has commented.
He is not the first artist to contribute his Mercury Prize prize money to worthy causes.
In they received the award in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, frontman Cocker declared that the act would give their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer she split her bounty among a few organizations, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked updated gear," Ms Dynamite shared with the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their winnings to the youth organization that developed their act, in addition to other local music groups.
And 1994 winners they donated their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was diagnosed the illness.
"The victory was sufficient," said vocalist Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we could do without the cherry, because we had the honor. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT announced it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in the city and The Croft in that location were acquired under the community ownership initiative, which is funded by a national body and enthusiasts who acquire "stakes" in the buildings.
