The artist has handed over the complete sum of his £25k award prize money to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the UK's small music venues.
He was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his latest record his work was chosen as the outstanding release of the previous year.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it weren't for all the shows I did around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these spaces have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts such as the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a small levy to their ticket prices, which supports independent venues.
Fender also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his recent tour to support 38 grassroots venues across the UK.
The donation assisted spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges caused by floods, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces received financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that positively impacted performers and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from performances in big venues supports the smaller venues, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just common sense," the star has said.
He is far from the only musician to donate his honor prize money to charitable organizations.
In Pulp received the prize in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would give their prize money to the charity War Child.
During 2002, artist the artist split her bounty between multiple organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked new equipment," the artist shared with outlets.
Previously, the band gave their funds to the local youth club that nurtured their act, in addition to other local music groups.
And the 1994 recipients they contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was identified with the disease.
"Receiving the award was ample," stated artist Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our victory impacted another person's life."
Last week, the trust shared it had rescued a couple of local spots in that region, by placing them under local control.
One venue in that area and the second in Bristol were bought under the community ownership program, which is backed by a national body and music fans who buy "shares" in the properties.
