The artist has given the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the trust for venues, which works to preserve the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
He was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his latest record his work was named the top album of the last 12 months.
He has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the crucial part grassroots venues had in his early career.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it weren't for all the performances I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked the artist. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these venues have shut down – about 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, well-known musicians such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Sam Fender also took part, collecting over £100k on his recent tour to support thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
The money assisted venues that were facing possible closure due to difficulties arising from flooding, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as permit problems, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues received funding support in improving infrastructure and gear that helped artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that revenue from performances in major spaces backs the smaller venues, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has said.
The musician is among several artists to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to worthy causes.
Back when Pulp earned the award in the mid-90s for their record the album, lead singer Cocker announced that the band would contribute their winnings to the organization the charity.
In 2002, artist Ms Dynamite split her bounty among several organizations, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," she shared with a publication.
Two years ago, the band gave their funds to the community center that developed their group, as well as other local music groups.
And 1994 winners they gave their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was found to have the illness.
"Receiving the award was ample," said singer Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the honor. So our winning touched another person's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had protected a couple of grassroots venues in south-east England, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and the other in that location were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is backed by the arts council and enthusiasts who buy "shares" in the venues.
