The artist has given the entirety of his £25k award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to protect the United Kingdom's small concert spaces.
The star was given the prize on 16 October as his latest record his work was named the top album of the last 12 months.
He has decided to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the essential function small stages fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing my current career if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was starting out," remarked Fender. "These locations are renowned, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these locations have shut down – about 16% of the total UK scene.
Recently, top acts including Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to help venues survive, by applying a modest fee to their ticket prices, which benefits independent venues.
He also joined in, raising more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
The donation helped venues that were facing potential shutdown due to issues caused by flooding, fires and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, court cases and noise complaints.
Additional spaces received financial assistance in modernizing facilities and gear that positively impacted artists and concertgoers.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in major spaces supports the local stages, where it all starts for artists like me, is just common sense," the star has commented.
The musician is not the first artist to donate his honor prize money to worthy causes.
When Pulp won the award in 1996 for their release Different Class, vocalist Cocker announced that the group would give their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
That year, musician the artist shared her prize between several good causes, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I gave a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their classes, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they lacked better apparatus," the artist explained to outlets.
In recent years, the band contributed their prize money to the community center that developed their band, as well as other independent music bodies.
And the 1994 recipients M People contributed their award to a MS organization after a friend was found to have the illness.
"Receiving the award was ample," said vocalist the singer. "The cash was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the honor. So our winning affected another person's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had protected a couple of grassroots venues in south-east England, by placing them under local control.
The Joiners in Southampton and the second in the city were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is backed by a national body and music fans who purchase "stakes" in the venues.
