The star has given the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound honor winnings to the trust for venues, which works to protect the UK's grassroots music venues.
He was awarded the award on October 16 as his third album his work was named the top album of the past year.
He has chosen to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the vital role small stages played in his initial steps.
"I couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the shows I did around the region, and further afield, when I was just getting going," said the artist. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
Fender also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his live tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation assisted locations that were facing possible closure due to difficulties stemming from water damage, blazes and bereavements, as well as permit problems, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in upgrading amenities and gear that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from concerts in big venues helps the independent spots, where it all starts for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has commented.
He is far from the only musician to give his award prize money to charitable organizations.
In they earned the trophy in the mid-90s for their album their work, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would give their winnings to the charity War Child.
That year, musician the artist divided her bounty across a few good causes, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," the artist told outlets.
In recent years, the band donated their funds to the youth organization that nurtured their band, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Also the 1994 recipients the group donated their winnings to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"Winning was sufficient," remarked artist Heather Small. "The prize was the cherry on top but we could do without the cherry, because we had the cake. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the trust revealed it had protected a couple of small stages in south-east England, by transferring them to community ownership.
One venue in the city and the second in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
