The star has given the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the trust for venues, which works to protect the UK's small music venues.
The star was awarded the prize on October 16 as his new release his work was declared the outstanding release of the past year.
He has opted to donate the funds to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part grassroots venues had in his early career.
"As an artist would not have achieved what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the gigs I did around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked Sam Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – about one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts like the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which supports smaller concert halls.
He also joined in, collecting more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support numerous grassroots venues across the UK.
The donation assisted spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from flooding, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained funding support in modernizing facilities and gear that directly benefitted artists and concertgoers.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it begins for artists like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has stated.
The musician is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize prize money to charitable organizations.
When they earned the award in the year 1996 for their record the album, lead singer Jarvis Cocker declared that the act would donate their winnings to the organization War Child.
In 2002, artist Ms Dynamite split her bounty across a few good causes, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," she explained to a publication.
Previously, the band donated their winnings to the community center that nurtured their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
And winners that year the group donated their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was identified with the condition.
"Winning was quite enough," said artist the singer. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our winning affected another person's life."
Recently, the trust shared it had saved a couple of small stages in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the other in that location were acquired under the public acquisition scheme, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who buy "shares" in the buildings.
