The star has handed over the full amount of his £25k Mercury Prize prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to save the Britain's independent music venues.
He was awarded the cheque on October 16 as his third album People Watching was named the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
Fender has chosen to donate the funds to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues had in his initial steps.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it weren't for all the performances I did around the area, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, well-known musicians such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its efforts to support the industry, by applying a small levy to their ticket costs, which goes to help independent venues.
Sam Fender also participated, raising over £100k on his live tour to support 38 local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges caused by flooding, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as permit problems, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted musicians and fans.
"The notion that revenue from performances in major spaces supports the independent spots, where it all starts for artists like me, is just logical," the star has stated.
He is among several artists to contribute his award prize money to worthy causes.
When they won the prize in 1996 for their release the album, frontman Cocker declared that the act would give their prize money to the charity War Child.
That year, artist she split her prize among multiple organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I gave a grand to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," the artist explained to the media.
Previously, Ezra Collective contributed their prize money to the local youth club that supported their group, in addition to other local music groups.
And winners that year the group contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was identified with the disease.
"Winning was quite enough," stated singer Heather Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our winning touched another person's life."
In the past week, the MVT revealed it had rescued two grassroots venues in south-east England, by placing them under community ownership.
The Joiners in the city and the other in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by a national body and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the properties.
