The artist has given the complete sum of his £25k award winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to preserve the United Kingdom's small live music spots.
Fender was awarded the award on October 16 as his third album People Watching was named the top album of the past year.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his early career.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I played around the North East, and beyond, when I was starting out," remarked Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
In the last year, major artists like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by applying a small levy to their ticket prices, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his live tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds helped spaces that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues arising from flooding, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained funding support in modernizing amenities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted artists and audiences.
"The concept that revenue from shows in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just logical," Fender has stated.
He is not the first artist to donate his honor funds to charitable organizations.
When they won the award in the year 1996 for their record Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would donate their cash to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite shared her bounty between multiple good causes, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I contributed a thousand pounds to the center, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked updated gear," Ms Dynamite shared with a publication.
Two years ago, the band gave their winnings to the community center that developed their band, alongside other independent music bodies.
And 1994 winners they gave their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was diagnosed the condition.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," said singer the singer. "The money was the bonus but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the cake. So our winning impacted somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had rescued two small stages in south-east England, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The Joiners in the city and the second in the city were purchased under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is funded by a national body and music fans who purchase "stakes" in the buildings.
