The artist has donated the entirety of his £25k honor winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the Britain's independent live music spots.
He was given the prize on October 16 as his third album the album was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
He has chosen to give the cash to the MVT, in appreciation of the crucial part small stages had in his initial steps.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing my current career if it weren't for all the performances I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," said the artist. "These locations are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, more than 150 of these locations have permanently closed – approximately 16% of the total UK scene.
Recently, well-known musicians such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the MVT in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, raising in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to help thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money helped spaces that were confronting imminent closure due to issues caused by floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as permit problems, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Other venues obtained funding support in improving infrastructure and technical equipment that positively impacted musicians and audiences.
"The idea that money from concerts in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it begins for artists like me, is just common sense," the star has said.
He is not the first artist to donate his award funds to good deeds.
In the band earned the trophy in the year 1996 for their record their work, frontman Cocker announced that the group would contribute their winnings to the organization the charity.
In 2002, musician the artist shared her award between several organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I donated a grand to the center, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked better apparatus," she explained to a publication.
Two years ago, they gave their funds to the youth organization that developed their group, in addition to other local music groups.
Additionally 1994 winners they contributed their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Winning was quite enough," said artist the singer. "The prize was the extra but we could do without the cherry, because we had the honor. So our winning impacted another person's life."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had rescued a couple of grassroots venues in that region, by bringing them into community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and The Croft in Bristol were bought under the community ownership initiative, which is funded by the arts council and music fans who acquire "ownership units" in the buildings.
