The star has donated the full amount of his £25,000 Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which works to save the Britain's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was presented with the cheque on October 16 as his latest record the album was declared the top album of the previous year.
He has chosen to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the vital role small stages played in his initial steps.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I played around the area, and further afield, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – about 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by adding a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, collecting over £100k on his live tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across the UK.
The donation assisted locations that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges stemming from floods, fires and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Other venues obtained financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The idea that funds from shows in big venues supports the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to charitable organizations.
In the band earned the prize in the year 1996 for their album their work, lead singer the singer declared that the group would donate their cash to the organization War Child.
That year, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite split her award among a few organizations, including the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also contributed a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," the artist shared with the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the youth organization that developed their band, in addition to other local music groups.
Also 1994 winners the group donated their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was found to have the condition.
"The victory was quite enough," stated artist Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the cake. So our victory affected the lives of others."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had protected several small stages in that region, by transferring them to local control.
One venue in Southampton and The Croft in the city were acquired under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who purchase "stakes" in the venues.
