The artist has given the entirety of his £25k award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the Britain's grassroots live music spots.
Fender was presented with the cheque on October 16 as his third album the album was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
He has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in recognition of the essential function local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing this success if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these venues have shut down – about 16% of the total UK scene.
Recently, well-known musicians including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their ticket prices, which benefits smaller concert halls.
He also joined in, raising over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to support 38 local spots across the UK.
The donation supported venues that were dealing with possible closure due to challenges caused by water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted funding support in upgrading facilities and gear that positively impacted artists and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from shows in large arenas supports the local stages, where it begins for performers like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
He is among several artists to contribute his award funds to worthy causes.
In they won the trophy in 1996 for their album Different Class, frontman the singer declared that the act would contribute their winnings to the organization War Child.
That year, artist Ms Dynamite shared her prize across a few good causes, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," the artist explained to outlets.
In recent years, the band gave their prize money to the community center that developed their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year M People contributed their prize to a MS organization after a acquaintance was diagnosed the condition.
"The victory was ample," said vocalist the singer. "The money was the bonus but we didn't need the extra, because we had the cake. So our success affected somebody else's life."
Last week, the MVT shared it had saved several grassroots venues in that region, by bringing them into local control.
The Joiners in the city and the other in the city were acquired under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is supported by a national body and supporters who buy "stakes" in the properties.
