The star has handed over the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the trust for venues, which works to preserve the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
Fender was given the award on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the past year.
He has decided to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the essential function local spots played in his early career.
"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the performances I did around the area, and further afield, when I was beginning," stated Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by adding a modest fee to their admission fees, which benefits independent venues.
He also participated, collecting in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds supported venues that were facing potential shutdown due to issues caused by water damage, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues obtained financial assistance in modernizing facilities and gear that helped musicians and fans.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in large arenas helps the independent spots, where it all starts for performers like me, is just logical," Fender has commented.
He is among several artists to contribute his Mercury Prize funds to charitable organizations.
Back when the band won the award in the year 1996 for their record their work, frontman the singer announced that the band would give their cash to the organization the charity.
That year, musician she shared her award among multiple charities, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I gave a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to a publication.
In recent years, they gave their funds to the local youth club that nurtured their group, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally the 1994 recipients M People donated their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Receiving the award was sufficient," remarked artist Small. "The cash was the extra but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our winning affected the lives of others."
Recently, the trust announced it had saved two local spots in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The first in that area and the other in the city were purchased under the community ownership program, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who buy "stakes" in the properties.
