The artist has handed over the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound Mercury Prize prize money to the MVT, which operates to preserve the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the cheque on 16 October as his third album his work was named the outstanding release of the past year.
The musician has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages fulfilled in his early career.
"As an artist wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the region, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," remarked Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – roughly 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Recently, well-known musicians like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, raising in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to help numerous local spots across England, Scotland, and Wales.
These funds assisted locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to challenges arising from flooding, fires and personal losses, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and sound issues.
Additional spaces obtained funding support in improving amenities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from shows in major spaces supports the smaller venues, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just logical," Fender has said.
He is among several artists to contribute his award winnings to good deeds.
When Pulp earned the trophy in 1996 for their album Different Class, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the band would donate their cash to the non-profit War Child.
That year, musician Ms Dynamite shared her prize between a few charities, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I gave a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics program, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they required updated gear," she shared with the media.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their winnings to the community center that nurtured their group, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year the group gave their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the disease.
"Winning was ample," said vocalist Heather Small. "The money was the cherry on top but we could do without the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT shared it had saved a couple of local spots in the South East, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in the city and The Croft in the city were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by Arts Council England and music fans who purchase "ownership units" in the buildings.
