The star has given the entirety of his £25k Mercury Prize cash to the MVT, which operates to save the UK's small music venues.
He was awarded the award on mid-October as his new release the album was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has opted to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the essential function small stages played in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was beginning," said Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these locations have permanently closed – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Recently, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket prices, which goes to help independent venues.
Fender also joined in, collecting over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to assist thirty-eight small stages across Britain.
These funds assisted spaces that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges caused by water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Additional spaces received financial assistance in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The notion that money from performances in major spaces backs the local stages, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just common sense," the star has said.
He is far from the only musician to contribute his award funds to good deeds.
In the band won the trophy in the year 1996 for their album the album, frontman Jarvis Cocker stated that the act would give their prize money to the organization War Child.
In 2002, artist she split her bounty across a few charities, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also contributed a grand to my local community centre, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," the artist explained to the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the local youth club that supported their group, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
And 1994 winners the group gave their award to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," remarked singer Heather Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the honor. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had saved several grassroots venues in south-east England, by placing them under public stewardship.
One venue in that area and The Croft in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
