The artist has handed over the full amount of his £25k Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to protect the Britain's small music venues.
Fender was presented with the award on October 16 as his new release his work was declared the best record of the last 12 months.
He has decided to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally wouldn't be doing this success if it wasn't for all the performances I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked the artist. "These locations are iconic, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have ceased operations – approximately 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their ticket prices, which goes to help independent venues.
Fender also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help 38 grassroots venues across the UK.
The money supported venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and noise complaints.
Additional spaces received financial assistance in modernizing facilities and technical equipment that helped artists and fans.
"The idea that money from shows in big venues supports the local stages, where it all starts for performers like me, is just logical," the star has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to contribute his award prize money to charitable organizations.
In they won the prize in 1996 for their album Different Class, lead singer Cocker announced that the group would give their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, artist Ms Dynamite split her prize between a few good causes, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," Ms Dynamite shared with outlets.
In recent years, they gave their winnings to the community center that supported their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year the group contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was found to have the disease.
"Winning was ample," stated vocalist the singer. "The prize was the cherry on top but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning impacted another person's life."
Recently, the trust revealed it had saved a couple of small stages in south-east England, by transferring them to community ownership.
The first in the city and the other in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by a national body and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
