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The musician gives twenty-five thousand pounds award winnings to grassroots music venues
The star has given the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the MVT, which works to save the UK's small live music spots.
He was given the award on October 16 as his third album the album was chosen as the top album of the past year.
Fender has chosen to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the vital role local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I wouldn't be doing this success if it hadn't been for all the shows I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," said Sam Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these venues have permanently closed – approximately one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
Fender also took part, generating over £100k on his recent tour to help numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to issues stemming from flooding, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in improving infrastructure and gear that positively impacted musicians and fans.
"The notion that money from performances in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just logical," Sam Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to give his Mercury Prize prize money to good deeds.
In the band earned the award in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, vocalist Cocker stated that the group would contribute their prize money to the charity War Child.
During 2002, artist Ms Dynamite divided her prize between several organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they needed new equipment," Ms Dynamite told the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the community center that supported their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
And 1994 winners they contributed their award to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was found to have the condition.
"The victory was sufficient," remarked artist Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our success impacted another person's life."
Last week, the MVT revealed it had rescued a couple of local spots in south-east England, by transferring them to local control.
The first in the city and The Croft in that location were acquired under the community ownership program, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who buy "stakes" in the buildings.
Joseph Brown
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