The artist has given the entirety of his £25k award winnings to the Music Venues Trust, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's grassroots concert spaces.
He was presented with the prize on mid-October as his third album People Watching was declared the outstanding release of the previous year.
He has chosen to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved what I am doing today if it weren't for all the gigs I performed around the region, and beyond, when I was just getting going," remarked Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about one-sixth of the entire UK sector.
In the last year, top acts like Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by applying a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which goes to help independent venues.
He also joined in, collecting more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across the UK.
The money supported spaces that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties arising from water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and sound issues.
Other venues were granted funding support in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted musicians and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from concerts in major spaces supports the local stages, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just sensible," the star has said.
He is not the first artist to donate his honor winnings to worthy causes.
When they won the prize in the mid-90s for their record their work, frontman Jarvis Cocker stated that the act would give their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, musician the artist shared her prize among a few organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a £1,000 to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they needed updated gear," Ms Dynamite explained to a publication.
Previously, Ezra Collective gave their funds to the community center that supported their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
Additionally winners that year M People gave their winnings to a MS organization after a friend was identified with the disease.
"Winning was ample," remarked singer Small. "The money was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our winning touched the lives of others."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had rescued two grassroots venues in south-east England, by transferring them to local control.
One venue in the city and The Croft in that location were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is backed by the arts council and supporters who acquire "stakes" in the properties.
