The artist has given the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award winnings to the trust for venues, which functions to protect the Britain's small concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the prize on mid-October as his new release his work was chosen as the best record of the past year.
Fender has chosen to donate the funds to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the North East, and beyond, when I was just getting going," said 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 – about 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
He also joined in, generating more than £100,000 on his live tour to assist 38 local spots across Britain.
The money assisted venues that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges arising from water damage, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted funding support in upgrading facilities and technical equipment that helped artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that funds from concerts in large arenas backs the independent spots, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," Sam Fender has commented.
The musician is not the first artist to contribute his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
When the band earned the award in the year 1996 for their release the album, frontman the singer declared that the group would contribute their prize money to the organization the charity.
That year, rapper and singer the artist divided her bounty across several charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also contributed a grand to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they needed better apparatus," she explained to the media.
In recent years, the band contributed their funds to the local youth club that nurtured their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also the 1994 recipients the group gave their winnings to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our winning touched another person's life."
Recently, the trust shared it had rescued two local spots in south-east England, by placing them under public stewardship.
One venue in the city and the other in Bristol were bought under the community ownership program, which is funded by a national body and enthusiasts who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
