The star has given the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize prize money to the trust for venues, which functions to preserve the UK's grassroots live music spots.
Fender was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his third album the album was chosen as the top album of the past year.
The musician has decided to hand the money over to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function grassroots venues played in his early career.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I did around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked the artist. "These venues are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – about one-sixth of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their ticket costs, which goes to help local stages.
He also took part, collecting more than £100,000 on his recent tour to support thirty-eight local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported venues that were confronting imminent closure due to difficulties caused by flooding, fires and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted funding support in improving infrastructure and gear that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that funds from concerts in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for performers like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has said.
Fender is among several artists to give his Mercury Prize funds to charitable organizations.
In Pulp won the prize in the mid-90s for their album the album, lead singer Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would contribute their prize money to the charity the charity.
During 2002, artist she divided her award across multiple charities, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
In recent years, the band contributed their winnings to the local youth club that developed their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Also 1994 winners M People donated their award to a charity for MS after a friend was found to have the condition.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said vocalist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we could do without the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our winning touched another person's life."
Recently, the trust announced it had rescued two small stages in the South East, by bringing them into local control.
The first in the city and The Croft in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who buy "shares" in the venues.
