The artist has given the full amount of his £25k Mercury Prize cash to the MVT, which operates to protect the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
He was awarded the award on 16 October as his third album his work was chosen as the best record of the last 12 months.
The musician has chosen to donate the funds to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his initial steps.
"I personally would not have achieved my current career if it weren't for all the shows I played around the area, and beyond, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These spaces are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – approximately one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by adding a small levy to their admission fees, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
He also took part, generating in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help 38 grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted spaces that were confronting possible closure due to issues caused by flooding, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and noise complaints.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in improving infrastructure and gear that helped artists and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from shows in large arenas supports the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just logical," Fender has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to give his Mercury Prize prize money to worthy causes.
In Pulp received the trophy in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, vocalist Cocker announced that the band would donate their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
That year, musician the artist shared her award across a few good causes, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I donated a grand to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," the artist explained to the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their funds to the local youth club that supported their group, alongside other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year M People gave their award to a MS organization after a friend was found to have the illness.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said singer Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning touched another person's life."
Last week, the trust announced it had rescued several local spots in south-east England, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in Southampton and the second in Bristol were purchased under the community ownership program, which is supported by the arts council and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the properties.
