The star has given the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the trust for venues, which works to save the United Kingdom's small music venues.
Fender was presented with the cheque on October 16 as his third album People Watching was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
The musician has decided to hand the money over to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part grassroots venues had in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing this success if it weren't for all the gigs I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these locations have permanently closed – approximately 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, well-known musicians such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits local stages.
Fender also took part, collecting over £100k on his recent tour to assist 38 local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported venues that were confronting possible closure due to challenges caused by flooding, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and sound issues.
Other venues obtained funding support in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that positively impacted artists and fans.
"The concept that money from concerts in large arenas supports the local stages, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just logical," Fender has stated.
The musician is far from the only musician to give his honor winnings to charitable organizations.
When Pulp earned the trophy in 1996 for their record their work, frontman Cocker declared that the group would contribute their cash to the charity the charity.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist shared her prize between several organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to a publication.
Previously, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the youth organization that developed their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
And the 1994 recipients the group gave their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"The victory was ample," said singer Heather Small. "The cash was the extra but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning affected the lives of others."
In the past week, the MVT shared it had protected a couple of local spots in the South East, by placing them under public stewardship.
The Joiners in that area and the second in the city were acquired under the community ownership initiative, which is supported by a national body and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the buildings.
