The star has donated the full amount of his £25k Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to save the UK's independent live music spots.
Fender was presented with the award on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the previous year.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the crucial part local spots played in his initial steps.
"I would not have achieved this success if it wasn't for all the shows I did around the North East, and further afield, when I was beginning," said Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these locations have shut down – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which supports local stages.
He also participated, raising in excess of £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds helped spaces that were confronting possible closure due to difficulties stemming from floods, fires and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Other venues received funding support in upgrading facilities and technical equipment that directly benefitted performers and fans.
"The concept that money from concerts in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just sensible," the star has stated.
Fender is not the first artist to give his Mercury Prize winnings to worthy causes.
Back when Pulp earned the trophy in 1996 for their release Different Class, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the group would give their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
In 2002, artist the artist shared her prize between several good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I gave a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked new equipment," she explained to outlets.
In recent years, the band gave their prize money to the community center that nurtured their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year they contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was diagnosed the condition.
"The victory was sufficient," said singer Small. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the cake. So our success impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the MVT revealed it had saved several small stages in that region, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in Southampton and The Croft in that location were purchased under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by a national body and enthusiasts who acquire "ownership units" in the properties.
