The star has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 award prize money to the trust for venues, which operates to preserve the UK's grassroots live music spots.
He was awarded the cheque on 16 October as his latest record the album was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
The musician has opted to give the cash to the trust, in recognition of the essential function grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the area, and beyond, when I was starting out," stated Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – approximately one-sixth of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its efforts to help venues survive, by applying a modest fee to their ticket prices, which supports independent venues.
Sam Fender also participated, raising more than £100,000 on his live tour to assist thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds supported spaces that were dealing with imminent closure due to difficulties caused by floods, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Some locations obtained monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted artists and audiences.
"The notion that funds from concerts in big venues backs the independent spots, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just sensible," Fender has commented.
He is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
When they earned the prize in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, frontman the singer declared that the group would donate their prize money to the organization the charity.
That year, artist she shared her award among multiple charities, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I donated a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they needed new equipment," Ms Dynamite explained to a publication.
In recent years, they contributed their funds to the youth organization that developed their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
And 1994 winners M People donated their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was found to have the condition.
"The victory was sufficient," said artist the singer. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't need the extra, because we had the honor. So our success impacted the lives of others."
In the past week, the trust announced it had rescued a couple of local spots in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and the second in that location were purchased under the Own Our Venues program, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who buy "shares" in the venues.
