The artist has given the complete sum of his £25k Mercury Prize winnings to the MVT, which works to protect the United Kingdom's small concert spaces.
The star was given the prize on mid-October as his new release People Watching was chosen as the top album of the last 12 months.
The musician has opted to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in recognition of the crucial part small stages had in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing my current career if it hadn't been for all the gigs I did around the North East, and beyond, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, at least 150 of these spaces have ceased operations – about one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a modest fee to their ticket prices, which supports local stages.
Fender also participated, generating over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to support thirty-eight small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money assisted spaces that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from flooding, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces were granted monetary aid in improving amenities and sound and lighting systems that helped performers and concertgoers.
"The idea that money from performances in large arenas backs the independent spots, where it all starts for musicians like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
Fender is far from the only musician to donate his award winnings to good deeds.
In they received the award in the mid-90s for their record Different Class, lead singer the singer declared that the act would give their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite divided her prize between a few charities, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"Additionally, I contributed a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
Two years ago, they donated their winnings to the youth organization that developed their group, as well as other local music groups.
Additionally the 1994 recipients they contributed their award to a MS organization after a close contact was identified with the illness.
"Winning was ample," stated vocalist Small. "The cash was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had protected a couple of local spots in that region, by bringing them into local control.
The first in the city and the second in that location were acquired under the community ownership program, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the venues.
