The star has donated the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound honor winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
Fender was presented with the cheque on 16 October as his new release his work was declared the top album of the previous year.
Fender has decided to donate the funds to the trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the shows I played around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These spaces are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these locations have permanently closed – about 16% of the total UK scene.
Recently, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to support the industry, by adding a modest fee to their ticket prices, which supports independent venues.
He also joined in, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to assist 38 small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation helped venues that were confronting possible closure due to difficulties caused by water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in improving infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and audiences.
"The idea that money from shows in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it begins for musicians like me, is just common sense," the star has commented.
The musician is far from the only musician to contribute his honor prize money to worthy causes.
In Pulp received the prize in 1996 for their record the album, vocalist Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would donate their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer she shared her bounty across a few good causes, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their prize money to the youth organization that supported their band, alongside other local music groups.
And 1994 winners the group donated their prize to a charity for MS after a close contact was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was ample," stated singer the singer. "The money was the bonus but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success affected the lives of others."
Last week, the trust revealed it had rescued two grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in the city and The Croft in that location were purchased under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who buy "shares" in the properties.
