The star has handed over the entirety of his £25,000 Mercury Prize prize money to the MVT, which functions to preserve the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the award on 16 October as his third album the album was chosen as the best record of the previous year.
He has decided to hand the money over to the trust, in appreciation of the crucial part small stages fulfilled in his early career.
"I wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the shows I did around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," said the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these spaces have shut down – roughly one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, major artists including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the MVT in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by applying a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also participated, raising over £100k on his live tour to support 38 grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and noise complaints.
Other venues obtained monetary aid in modernizing facilities and technical equipment that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from performances in big venues helps the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," the star has said.
The musician is among several artists to give his award winnings to worthy causes.
In they received the prize in 1996 for their album Different Class, frontman Cocker stated that the act would give their cash to the organization War Child.
During 2002, artist the artist shared her prize among a few good causes, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"Additionally, I contributed a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked new equipment," Ms Dynamite shared with a publication.
Previously, the band donated their prize money to the youth organization that developed their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year the group gave their winnings to a MS organization after a acquaintance was diagnosed the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The money was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the honor. So our success touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the trust announced it had rescued two small stages in that region, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in the city and the second in the city were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by the arts council and supporters who buy "stakes" in the properties.
