The star has handed over the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound award winnings to the trust for venues, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's small live music spots.
Fender was awarded the cheque on October 16 as his latest record his work was declared the top album of the previous year.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages had in his early career.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I performed around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," said Sam Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, major artists including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its attempts to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
He also participated, generating in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to support 38 small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by floods, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in modernizing amenities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted performers and fans.
"The notion that money from performances in major spaces backs the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just sensible," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
When Pulp won the prize in 1996 for their release Different Class, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would give their cash to the organization the charity.
That year, musician Ms Dynamite divided her prize across a few good causes, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I contributed a thousand pounds to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required new equipment," she told the media.
Previously, the band donated their prize money to the community center that developed their band, alongside other local music groups.
And winners that year the group gave their winnings to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"The victory was quite enough," said artist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't require the extra, because we had the honor. So our success impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the MVT revealed it had rescued two small stages in south-east England, by placing them under public stewardship.
The first in that area and the second in that location were purchased under the Own Our Venues program, which is backed by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the properties.
