The artist has donated the complete sum of his £25,000 honor winnings to the trust for venues, which operates to save the Britain's small live music spots.
The star was given the cheque on October 16 as his latest record People Watching was declared the best record of the past year.
Fender has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in appreciation of the essential function small stages had in his initial steps.
"I would not have achieved what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the shows I performed around the North East, and further afield, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these locations have ceased operations – approximately one-sixth of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by adding a modest fee to their ticket prices, which goes to help independent venues.
He also joined in, generating in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to help numerous small stages across the UK.
The money assisted spaces that were confronting imminent closure due to difficulties caused by water damage, fires and bereavements, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted funding support in improving infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and audiences.
"The concept that money from concerts in big venues helps the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to donate his Mercury Prize funds to good deeds.
In they earned the prize in 1996 for their release Different Class, lead singer Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would contribute their prize money to the charity the charity.
During 2002, musician the artist shared her award across a few good causes, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I contributed a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they required new equipment," the artist explained to a publication.
In recent years, the band gave their prize money to the youth organization that nurtured their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
And winners that year M People contributed their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"Winning was sufficient," said artist Heather Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the main prize. So our winning impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the MVT shared it had saved a couple of grassroots venues in south-east England, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The Joiners in that area and the other in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by the arts council and supporters who purchase "shares" in the properties.
