The artist has donated the full amount of his £25k Mercury Prize winnings to the trust for venues, which operates to preserve the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
Fender was awarded the award on October 16 as his third album his work was declared the best record of the previous year.
The musician has chosen to give the cash to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part small stages played in his beginning days.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the region, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," stated the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to support the industry, by adding a modest fee to their admission fees, which goes to help independent venues.
He also joined in, collecting over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to support thirty-eight grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The donation supported spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges caused by floods, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Additional spaces received financial assistance in upgrading infrastructure and gear that helped artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that funds from performances in major spaces backs the independent spots, where it begins for musicians like me, is just logical," Fender has said.
The musician is not the first artist to give his award winnings to good deeds.
When Pulp earned the trophy in the year 1996 for their album the album, vocalist the singer stated that the group would give their winnings to the organization War Child.
In 2002, rapper and singer she shared her prize among several charities, such as the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I gave a grand to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," she told the media.
In recent years, the band gave their prize money to the local youth club that supported their group, in addition to other local music groups.
Additionally the 1994 recipients M People donated their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," remarked singer Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the cake. So our victory impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had protected two grassroots venues in south-east England, by bringing them into community ownership.
The first in Southampton and the other in that location were acquired under the community ownership scheme, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
