The artist has handed over the complete sum of his £25k honor winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which works to save the UK's small concert spaces.
Fender was given the cheque on 16 October as his third album People Watching was named the outstanding release of the previous year.
He has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the crucial part local spots had in his initial steps.
"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the gigs I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – roughly one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, well-known musicians like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its initiatives to support the industry, by adding a modest fee to their ticket prices, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
He also participated, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help numerous grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds assisted spaces that were facing imminent closure due to issues arising from floods, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and gear that positively impacted performers and fans.
"The notion that funds from concerts in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it all starts for performers like me, is just common sense," Fender has commented.
The musician is far from the only musician to give his award winnings to good deeds.
In they won the award in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would donate their prize money to the charity War Child.
That year, rapper and singer she split her award across a few organizations, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I donated a thousand pounds to the center, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they needed new equipment," she shared with outlets.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective contributed their prize money to the community center that nurtured their act, as well as other local music groups.
Also winners that year the group donated their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was diagnosed the illness.
"Winning was sufficient," said singer the singer. "The prize was the cherry on top but we could do without the extra, because we had the honor. So our victory touched the lives of others."
Last week, the trust shared it had rescued a couple of small stages in the South East, by placing them under community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the second in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is backed by Arts Council England and enthusiasts who purchase "ownership units" in the venues.
