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The musician donates his £25k prize cash award to independent concert halls
Sam Fender has donated the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound honor prize money to the MVT, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
Fender was awarded the cheque on October 16 as his third album the album was chosen as the best record of the past year.
Fender has opted to donate the funds to the MVT, in appreciation of the crucial part grassroots venues fulfilled in his early career.
"I personally wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the shows I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," remarked Sam Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these locations have ceased operations – about 16% of the total UK scene.
In the last year, major artists like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its efforts to support the industry, by adding a modest fee to their ticket prices, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, raising more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to difficulties arising from flooding, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces received funding support in modernizing amenities and gear that directly benefitted artists and concertgoers.
"The concept that funds from concerts in big venues backs the independent spots, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," the star has commented.
He is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
Back when they earned the prize in 1996 for their release Different Class, frontman Cocker stated that the band would give their prize money to the charity the charity.
In 2002, artist she split her award across several organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also donated a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked updated gear," she told outlets.
In recent years, they contributed their winnings to the community center that developed their group, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year they contributed their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"The victory was quite enough," said artist Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust shared it had protected a couple of small stages in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
One venue in that area and the other in that location were purchased under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by a national body and supporters who purchase "ownership units" in the venues.
Andrew Wagner
A multilingual educator with over 10 years of experience in translation and language instruction.
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