The star has handed over the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to save the United Kingdom's small live music spots.
Fender was awarded the award on 16 October as his new release the album was declared the best record of the past year.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the essential function small stages played in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the North East, and further afield, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These locations are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have ceased operations – about 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts including Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by adding a small levy to their ticket costs, which goes to help local stages.
He also took part, raising over £100k on his recent tour to assist numerous small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported spaces that were confronting possible closure due to difficulties arising from floods, blazes and personal losses, as well as permit problems, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted monetary aid in improving infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that helped musicians and audiences.
"The notion that money from shows in major spaces supports the independent spots, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," the star has stated.
He is among several artists to donate his honor funds to charitable organizations.
When the band earned the award in 1996 for their release Different Class, frontman the singer stated that the band would give their winnings to the organization War Child.
In 2002, artist the artist split her award between several good causes, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"I also gave a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite told a publication.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their funds to the youth organization that developed their group, alongside other local music groups.
And the 1994 recipients they contributed their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was diagnosed the condition.
"Winning was quite enough," said vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the bonus but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning affected somebody else's life."
Recently, the trust announced it had rescued several grassroots venues in south-east England, by placing them under local control.
The first in that area and the other in that location were acquired under the public acquisition program, which is funded by Arts Council England and music fans who acquire "shares" in the buildings.
