The artist has handed over the full amount of his £25k award winnings to the MVT, which functions to save the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his third album his work was named the outstanding release of the past year.
The musician has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the vital role local spots had in his beginning days.
"I personally wouldn't be doing my current career if it weren't for all the shows I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – roughly one-sixth of the total UK scene.
In the last year, well-known musicians like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to support the industry, by adding a small levy to their ticket prices, which goes to help independent venues.
He also took part, collecting more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to support 38 local spots across Britain.
The money supported venues that were confronting possible closure due to difficulties stemming from water damage, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces were granted funding support in modernizing amenities and gear that helped performers and fans.
"The idea that money from performances in major spaces backs the local stages, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," Fender has commented.
The musician is not the first artist to donate his award funds to good deeds.
In Pulp earned the prize in 1996 for their release the album, frontman Jarvis Cocker stated that the group would donate their cash to the non-profit War Child.
In 2002, musician Ms Dynamite shared her award between a few charities, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a grand to the center, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," she explained to outlets.
Previously, they contributed their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their act, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year M People contributed their winnings to a MS organization after a friend was identified with the illness.
"The victory was sufficient," remarked vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't need the extra, because we had the cake. So our success touched another person's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust announced it had rescued a couple of small stages in the South East, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in the city and the other in Bristol were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "shares" in the properties.
