The artist has given the complete sum of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to preserve the UK's grassroots music venues.
He was awarded the award on mid-October as his third album his work was declared the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
The musician has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the vital role local spots played in his initial steps.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it wasn't for all the gigs I performed around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked the artist. "These venues are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – roughly 16 percent of the total UK scene.
In the last year, well-known musicians such as the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which goes to help local stages.
Fender also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his recent tour to help 38 local spots across the UK.
The money assisted venues that were confronting imminent closure due to difficulties caused by water damage, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Additional spaces obtained monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and gear that helped musicians and fans.
"The concept that money from performances in major spaces backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just sensible," Fender has said.
He is far from the only musician to donate his award prize money to charitable organizations.
When they earned the award in the mid-90s for their release the album, frontman the singer stated that the band would donate their cash to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, musician the artist split her prize between a few charities, such as the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also donated a grand to my local community centre, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they required new equipment," she explained to the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their funds to the community center that supported their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year the group gave their award to a MS organization after a friend was diagnosed the disease.
"Winning was quite enough," remarked artist Heather Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our victory touched the lives of others."
Last week, the MVT revealed it had protected a couple of local spots in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and the second in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
