The star has handed over the complete sum of his £25k Mercury Prize cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to save the UK's small concert spaces.
The star was presented with the award on October 16 as his latest record his work was chosen as the best record of the past year.
Fender has opted to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it wasn't for all the gigs I performed around the North East, and beyond, when I was just getting going," said Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – about 16% of the entire UK sector.
Recently, major artists like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by including a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits local stages.
He also joined in, raising over £100k on his recent tour to assist numerous local spots across Britain.
The donation assisted locations that were facing potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by water damage, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as licensing issues, court cases and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted funding support in modernizing facilities and technical equipment that helped musicians and audiences.
"The notion that money from concerts in large arenas supports the local stages, where it kicks off for musicians like me, is just common sense," Fender has said.
He is far from the only musician to contribute his award prize money to worthy causes.
In they won the award in 1996 for their album the album, frontman the singer announced that the act would donate their winnings to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, musician the artist split her prize among multiple good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I donated a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to outlets.
Previously, they donated their winnings to the community center that nurtured their group, in addition to other independent music bodies.
Also 1994 winners the group gave their winnings to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"The victory was ample," said artist Small. "The cash was the extra but we could do without the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our victory affected the lives of others."
In the past week, the trust announced it had protected several small stages in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
The first in the city and the second in that location were acquired under the community ownership program, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who purchase "ownership units" in the properties.
