The artist has donated the complete sum of his £25k award prize money to the trust for venues, which works to preserve the United Kingdom's grassroots live music spots.
He was given the award on 16 October as his new release the album was declared the outstanding release of the last 12 months.
The musician has chosen to donate the funds to the trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role grassroots venues played in his early career.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing my current career if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the North East, and further afield, when I was starting out," said the artist. "These venues are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these spaces have shut down – about 16 percent of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, major artists such as Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by adding a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which goes to help local stages.
He also participated, collecting more than £100,000 on his recent tour to assist 38 grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money helped venues that were confronting potential shutdown due to challenges arising from flooding, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and noise complaints.
Some locations obtained monetary aid in improving facilities and sound and lighting systems that helped artists and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from concerts in large arenas supports the smaller venues, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," the star has said.
Fender is not the first artist to donate his honor funds to charitable organizations.
When Pulp received the award in the mid-90s for their release their work, lead singer the singer declared that the band would donate their cash to the charity the charity.
During 2002, artist she split her bounty among several good causes, like the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I donated a grand to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they needed better apparatus," she told a publication.
In recent years, Ezra Collective gave their winnings to the local youth club that supported their act, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year the group gave their award to a MS organization after a acquaintance was identified with the illness.
"Winning was ample," remarked vocalist Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't require the extra, because we had the honor. So our success touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the trust shared it had saved a couple of local spots in the South East, by placing them under local control.
The first in the city and the other in the city were bought under the Own Our Venues program, which is backed by a national body and music fans who acquire "stakes" in the venues.
