The artist has donated the entirety of his £25k Mercury Prize winnings to the trust for venues, which works to save the Britain's small music venues.
He was presented with the award on 16 October as his new release People Watching was declared the top album of the past year.
He has opted to hand the money over to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues played in his initial steps.
"I couldn't be pursuing my current career if it wasn't for all the gigs I did around the area, and beyond, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – about 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, major artists including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a modest fee to their ticket costs, which supports local stages.
Sam Fender also took part, generating more than £100,000 on his live tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds supported spaces that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from floods, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as permit problems, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that revenue from shows in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," the star has said.
The musician is not the first artist to contribute his award funds to charitable organizations.
Back when the band earned the prize in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, vocalist Jarvis Cocker declared that the group would donate their winnings to the charity War Child.
During 2002, musician the artist shared her award among multiple good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," she told outlets.
Two years ago, they gave their funds to the youth organization that developed their group, in addition to other local music groups.
Also the 1994 recipients M People contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was diagnosed the illness.
"Winning was ample," remarked vocalist Heather Small. "The money was the bonus but we could do without the cherry, because we had the cake. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT shared it had rescued two local spots in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in that area and the other in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues program, which is funded by a national body and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
