The artist has handed over the complete sum of his £25,000 honor cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots live music spots.
He was given the award on October 16 as his third album the album was declared the best record of the previous year.
He has opted to give the cash to the MVT, in appreciation of the vital role grassroots venues had in his beginning days.
"I would not have achieved this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I did around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked Sam Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by applying a modest fee to their ticket costs, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
He also participated, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support thirty-eight grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported locations that were dealing with possible closure due to issues arising from water damage, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted funding support in upgrading infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and fans.
"The concept that revenue from performances in major spaces supports the independent spots, where it begins for performers like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize funds to good deeds.
When they received the award in 1996 for their release Different Class, vocalist Cocker declared that the band would donate their cash to the organization the charity.
In 2002, rapper and singer the artist split her bounty across several charities, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to the media.
Previously, the band contributed their funds to the youth organization that supported their act, in addition to other local music groups.
And winners that year the group gave their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was identified with the illness.
"The victory was ample," said vocalist the singer. "The cash was the bonus but we could do without the bonus, because we had the honor. So our winning touched the lives of others."
Last week, the trust revealed it had protected two small stages in that region, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in the city and the second in that location were acquired under the community ownership scheme, which is backed by a national body and music fans who buy "shares" in the buildings.
