The artist has given the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the MVT, which works to preserve the United Kingdom's small music venues.
He was given the cheque on October 16 as his third album People Watching was declared the top album of the past year.
He has decided to give the cash to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role grassroots venues played in his early career.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it weren't for all the gigs I did around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," said Fender. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these venues have ceased operations – roughly one-sixth of the total UK scene.
Recently, major artists including Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a small levy to their ticket prices, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, generating in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support 38 grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds supported spaces that were facing imminent closure due to challenges caused by water damage, blazes and personal losses, as well as permit problems, court cases and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted monetary aid in improving infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The notion that money from performances in large arenas helps the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just sensible," the star has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to contribute his honor funds to charitable organizations.
Back when Pulp earned the award in the year 1996 for their record the album, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would donate their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
That year, rapper and singer the artist split her award among a few charities, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I contributed a grand to the center, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they required better apparatus," she explained to the media.
Previously, the band gave their prize money to the youth organization that developed their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
Additionally winners that year they gave their winnings to a charity for MS after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," said artist Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we could do without the cherry, because we had the cake. So our victory affected another person's life."
In the past week, the trust revealed it had saved several grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into public stewardship.
The Joiners in that area and The Croft in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is backed by a national body and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
