The star has donated the entirety of his £25,000 award winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which works to preserve the Britain's small concert spaces.
The star was awarded the prize on mid-October as his latest record his work was named the best record of the past year.
He has opted to hand the money over to the trust, in appreciation of the vital role small stages had in his early career.
"I would not have achieved my current career if it weren't for all the gigs I did around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – about 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, well-known musicians including the band Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Fender also took part, collecting over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to help thirty-eight grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money helped locations that were dealing with imminent closure due to challenges arising from water damage, fires and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues obtained funding support in improving infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted artists and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from shows in big venues backs the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," Fender has said.
Fender is among several artists to contribute his award winnings to charitable organizations.
In they received the prize in 1996 for their record Different Class, vocalist Cocker announced that the band would donate their winnings to the organization War Child.
That year, rapper and singer the artist divided her prize among a few organizations, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I donated a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to outlets.
Two years ago, the band gave their prize money to the local youth club that nurtured their band, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
And winners that year M People gave their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was found to have the illness.
"The victory was sufficient," remarked vocalist the singer. "The cash was the extra but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the cake. So our success impacted the lives of others."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had saved several grassroots venues in south-east England, by transferring them to local control.
The Joiners in the city and the other in the city were acquired under the community ownership program, which is funded by a national body and supporters who buy "shares" in the buildings.
