The star has handed over the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound honor winnings to the MVT, which works to preserve the UK's small concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the prize on mid-October as his third album the album was declared the top album of the previous year.
Fender has decided to give the cash to the MVT, in acknowledgment of the vital role local spots fulfilled in his initial steps.
"I couldn't be pursuing my current career if it weren't for all the shows I played around the area, and beyond, when I was just getting going," remarked Fender. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about 16% of the whole industry in the UK.
Recently, top acts like the band Pulp, the group Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its attempts to keep the scene afloat, by applying a modest fee to their ticket prices, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Fender also took part, raising over £100k on his live tour to support thirty-eight small stages across Britain.
The money helped locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges caused by flooding, blazes and personal losses, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and noise complaints.
Other venues obtained monetary aid in improving infrastructure and technical equipment that helped musicians and concertgoers.
"The notion that funds from concerts in large arenas helps the smaller venues, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
He is not the first artist to give his Mercury Prize prize money to charitable organizations.
When the band earned the prize in the mid-90s for their release their work, vocalist the singer stated that the act would contribute their winnings to the organization War Child.
During 2002, musician she shared her bounty across multiple good causes, like the children's charity and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," she told a publication.
Previously, Ezra Collective contributed their prize money to the community center that nurtured their act, in addition to other independent music bodies.
And winners that year M People donated their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was found to have the illness.
"The victory was quite enough," remarked artist Small. "The cash was the extra but we could do without the extra, because we had the cake. So our winning touched the lives of others."
Last week, the Music Venues Trust shared it had protected several grassroots venues in south-east England, by transferring them to public stewardship.
The first in that area and the other in that location were bought under the community ownership scheme, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who purchase "shares" in the properties.
