The artist has donated the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the trust for venues, which works to protect the UK's independent live music spots.
He was awarded the award on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was declared the top album of the past year.
Fender has decided to hand the money over to the trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part small stages played in his early career.
"I couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its attempts to support the industry, by applying a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits independent venues.
Sam Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to support thirty-eight grassroots venues across Britain.
The money assisted venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues caused by water damage, fires and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in upgrading facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted musicians and audiences.
"The notion that funds from shows in major spaces backs the local stages, where it begins for performers like me, is just sensible," Fender has said.
Fender is among several artists to contribute his honor funds to charitable organizations.
Back when Pulp received the award in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, frontman the singer announced that the band would donate their cash to the non-profit the charity.
That year, rapper and singer she split her award across several good causes, like the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also donated a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told outlets.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective donated their winnings to the local youth club that nurtured their act, in addition to other local music groups.
Also 1994 winners the group contributed their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Winning was sufficient," remarked vocalist Heather Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our victory affected another person's life."
Recently, the trust shared it had protected two small stages in the South East, by transferring them to local control.
The first in that area and the other in Bristol were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who purchase "shares" in the venues.
