The artist has donated the entirety of his £25k award prize money to the MVT, which works to save the UK's grassroots music venues.
Fender was presented with the prize on October 16 as his new release his work was chosen as the best record of the previous year.
He has chosen to give the cash to the MVT, in appreciation of the vital role grassroots venues had in his initial steps.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the shows I did around the region, and beyond, when I was beginning," stated Fender. "These venues are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these locations have permanently closed – roughly 16% of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, major artists such as Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by including a modest fee to their ticket costs, which benefits smaller concert halls.
He also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist 38 grassroots venues across the UK.
These funds supported venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from flooding, blazes and bereavements, as well as permit problems, conflicts and sound issues.
Other venues were granted funding support in modernizing amenities and gear that helped musicians and audiences.
"The notion that money from concerts in big venues backs the independent spots, where it begins for musicians like me, is just sensible," the star has commented.
The musician is among several artists to give his award winnings to good deeds.
Back when the band received the prize in the mid-90s for their record Different Class, frontman Cocker announced that the band would donate their winnings to the organization the charity.
That year, musician the artist shared her prize among a few charities, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they needed updated gear," the artist shared with a publication.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their winnings to the local youth club that developed their act, as well as other local music groups.
Also winners that year the group gave their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was diagnosed the disease.
"Winning was ample," remarked singer Heather Small. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't require the extra, because we had the cake. So our success touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had protected two local spots in south-east England, by transferring them to local control.
The first in the city and the other in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues program, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who acquire "shares" in the properties.
