The star has handed over the complete sum of his £25,000 honor cash to the MVT, which works to protect the UK's grassroots live music spots.
The star was presented with the award on mid-October as his third album his work was chosen as the top album of the last 12 months.
Fender has chosen to hand the money over to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function local spots had in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the shows I played around the area, and further afield, when I was starting out," stated Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these locations have ceased operations – roughly 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, major artists including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also took part, generating over £100k on his recent tour to support thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
These funds assisted venues that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties arising from floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Other venues received monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The notion that funds from concerts in major spaces supports the independent spots, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to give his Mercury Prize prize money to charitable organizations.
In they earned the prize in the mid-90s for their album the album, frontman Jarvis Cocker declared that the act would contribute their winnings to the charity War Child.
During 2002, musician Ms Dynamite shared her prize between several organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they required updated gear," the artist explained to the media.
Previously, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the local youth club that supported their group, alongside other local music groups.
And winners that year they contributed their award to a charity for MS after a friend was diagnosed the disease.
"The victory was ample," remarked vocalist Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted another person's life."
Last week, the trust announced it had rescued two small stages in that region, by bringing them into public stewardship.
One venue in that area and The Croft in that location were purchased under the public acquisition scheme, which is funded by a national body and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the properties.
