The artist has given the entirety of his £25,000 award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the Britain's independent live music spots.
He was presented with the award on 16 October as his third album the album was chosen as the top album of the last 12 months.
The musician has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in appreciation of the vital role local spots played in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the performances I played around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," stated Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these locations have ceased operations – roughly 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, major artists including the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by including a modest fee to their ticket prices, which goes to help local stages.
Sam Fender also joined in, raising more than £100,000 on his recent tour to support thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
The donation helped locations that were confronting imminent closure due to difficulties arising from water damage, blazes and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Other venues received funding support in improving amenities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from performances in big venues supports the local stages, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
He is not the first artist to donate his Mercury Prize prize money to good deeds.
Back when the band earned the award in the year 1996 for their album their work, vocalist the singer declared that the group would contribute their winnings to the charity War Child.
That year, artist the artist split her bounty across multiple organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I donated a grand to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they required better apparatus," she shared with a publication.
Previously, they contributed their winnings to the local youth club that nurtured their group, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Also the 1994 recipients M People gave their award to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was ample," said singer the singer. "The cash was the bonus but we could do without the extra, because we had the main prize. So our success touched the lives of others."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had rescued a couple of grassroots venues in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and the other in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "stakes" in the buildings.
