The star has donated the entirety of his £25,000 award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to save the Britain's independent live music spots.
The star was awarded the prize on October 16 as his latest record People Watching was named the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
He has decided to hand the money over to the trust, in recognition of the vital role grassroots venues had in his initial steps.
"As an artist would not have achieved my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the region, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16% of the entire UK sector.
Recently, major artists like Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by applying a small levy to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Sam Fender also took part, generating in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to assist numerous small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation assisted locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to issues caused by flooding, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations obtained financial assistance in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that helped artists and concertgoers.
"The notion that money from concerts in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it begins for musicians like me, is just common sense," Fender has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to contribute his Mercury Prize funds to good deeds.
When Pulp received the trophy in 1996 for their record the album, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would donate their prize money to the charity the charity.
That year, musician the artist divided her prize across several good causes, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I gave a grand to my local community centre, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they required new equipment," she told the media.
Previously, they contributed their funds to the community center that developed their band, as well as other local music groups.
And 1994 winners M People donated their winnings to a MS organization after a close contact was diagnosed the illness.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," stated singer Small. "The cash was the bonus but we could do without the cherry, because we had the cake. So our success affected another person's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had protected several local spots in that region, by bringing them into community ownership.
The first in that area and the second in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by a national body and supporters who buy "stakes" in the buildings.
