The artist has given the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the Britain's small music venues.
He was given the prize on mid-October as his third album People Watching was declared the outstanding release of the past year.
The musician has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function small stages had in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the North East, and further afield, when I was just getting going," said Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – approximately one-sixth of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its efforts to support the industry, by including a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also participated, generating in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to help thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money assisted locations that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges stemming from flooding, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, court cases and sound issues.
Other venues obtained financial assistance in modernizing facilities and technical equipment that directly benefitted musicians and audiences.
"The concept that funds from concerts in large arenas helps the local stages, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," the star has said.
Fender is among several artists to give his honor winnings to good deeds.
In they won the award in 1996 for their release their work, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would contribute their prize money to the charity the charity.
In 2002, artist she split her prize across several good causes, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I gave a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to a publication.
In recent years, they contributed their winnings to the youth organization that developed their group, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year they gave their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"The victory was sufficient," said artist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the extra, because we had the honor. So our victory impacted somebody else's life."
Last week, the trust announced it had rescued a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to local control.
The first in the city and the other in the city were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by the arts council and enthusiasts who buy "stakes" in the properties.
