The star has handed over the entirety of his £25,000 award winnings to the MVT, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's small music venues.
Fender was presented with the cheque on October 16 as his third album People Watching was declared the top album of the last 12 months.
He has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function small stages fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These spaces are renowned, but they are struggling."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these venues have shut down – about one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Recently, top acts including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their ticket costs, which supports smaller concert halls.
He also took part, generating more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds supported venues that were facing possible closure due to challenges caused by flooding, blazes and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in upgrading amenities and technical equipment that directly benefitted artists and fans.
"The idea that money from shows in major spaces helps the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just logical," Fender has said.
Fender is not the first artist to contribute his award funds to worthy causes.
Back when the band received the award in the year 1996 for their record their work, lead singer Cocker stated that the band would donate their cash to the organization War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite divided her prize among multiple good causes, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite shared with outlets.
In recent years, the band gave their funds to the local youth club that supported their act, as well as other independent music bodies.
Additionally winners that year the group contributed their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was found to have the illness.
"The victory was ample," remarked singer Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the main prize. So our victory touched the lives of others."
Last week, the MVT announced it had protected a couple of local spots in the South East, by transferring them to local control.
One venue in Southampton and the second in that location were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by a national body and supporters who buy "shares" in the venues.
