The star has handed over the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound honor prize money to the MVT, which works to save the United Kingdom's independent music venues.
Fender was presented with the cheque on October 16 as his latest record his work was chosen as the outstanding release of the past year.
Fender has opted to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the essential function grassroots venues had in his beginning days.
"I personally wouldn't be doing my current career if it weren't for all the gigs I did around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These locations are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, well-known musicians like the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
He also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his live tour to support numerous local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted venues that were facing possible closure due to issues stemming from floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues were granted funding support in improving infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted artists and fans.
"The idea that revenue from concerts in big venues helps the independent spots, where it begins for musicians like me, is just common sense," the star has stated.
He is far from the only musician to donate his award funds to worthy causes.
When they earned the award in the mid-90s for their record their work, frontman Jarvis Cocker declared that the group would give their cash to the non-profit War Child.
In 2002, artist she split her prize between multiple organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," the artist shared with a publication.
Previously, they donated their funds to the youth organization that nurtured their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
And 1994 winners M People gave their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Winning was sufficient," said vocalist Heather Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the cake. So our winning touched another person's life."
Last week, the trust shared it had protected a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in the city and the other in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues initiative, which is backed by a national body and music fans who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
