The artist has donated the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the Britain's small music venues.
The star was presented with the prize on mid-October as his new release the album was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
He has chosen to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the essential function small stages had in his early career.
"I couldn't be pursuing this success if it weren't for all the gigs I did around the North East, and beyond, when I was just getting going," said the artist. "These venues are legendary, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – about one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, major artists such as the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its efforts to support the industry, by including a small levy to their ticket costs, which supports independent venues.
Fender also took part, generating in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist 38 grassroots venues across Britain.
The donation helped venues that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues stemming from floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Other venues received funding support in upgrading infrastructure and technical equipment that positively impacted performers and concertgoers.
"The idea that funds from performances in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," the star has said.
Fender is not the first artist to donate his award funds to charitable organizations.
When Pulp received the award in the year 1996 for their album the album, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would give their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer the artist split her award across several organizations, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I contributed a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they required new equipment," the artist told the media.
Previously, Ezra Collective donated their winnings to the community center that supported their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
And the 1994 recipients M People donated their winnings to a charity for MS after a friend was diagnosed the illness.
"Winning was ample," stated singer the singer. "The money was the extra but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the MVT revealed it had protected two grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The Joiners in Southampton and the second in that location were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is backed by a national body and supporters who purchase "shares" in the buildings.
