The star has given the entirety of his £25k honor prize money to the trust for venues, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's small live music spots.
Fender was given the award on mid-October as his third album People Watching was chosen as the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
He has opted to hand the money over to the trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages fulfilled in his early career.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the gigs I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Recently, well-known musicians including the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which goes to help independent venues.
Fender also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across Britain.
These funds helped venues that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges stemming from water damage, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Other venues received financial assistance in upgrading infrastructure and gear that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from shows in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it all starts for performers like me, is just common sense," the star has commented.
The musician is among several artists to give his honor funds to worthy causes.
In they won the prize in the year 1996 for their album Different Class, frontman the singer declared that the act would donate their prize money to the organization the charity.
That year, rapper and singer the artist split her prize among multiple organizations, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I contributed a thousand pounds to the center, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," the artist told the media.
Previously, the band donated their winnings to the local youth club that developed their band, alongside other local music groups.
And the 1994 recipients the group gave their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was found to have the condition.
"The victory was ample," said singer the singer. "The money was the extra but we didn't need the extra, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted the lives of others."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had rescued a couple of local spots in that region, by placing them under community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and the second in the city were bought under the community ownership program, which is backed by a national body and enthusiasts who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.
