The star has handed over the entirety of his £25k honor cash to the trust for venues, which functions to preserve the Britain's grassroots live music spots.
The star was presented with the prize on mid-October as his third album his work was named the top album of the last 12 months.
He has opted to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role grassroots venues fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved this success if it weren't for all the shows I performed around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," stated the artist. "These spaces are iconic, but they are struggling."
From early 2023 onward, more than 150 of these spaces have shut down – approximately 16% of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to help venues survive, by applying a minor surcharge to their ticket costs, which goes to help local stages.
He also joined in, generating over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to assist numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money helped locations that were confronting potential shutdown due to difficulties stemming from flooding, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and sound issues.
Additional spaces received funding support in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that directly benefitted performers and audiences.
"The notion that funds from concerts in major spaces supports the local stages, where it kicks off for performers like me, is just logical," Fender has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to donate his award prize money to charitable organizations.
Back when they won the award in the mid-90s for their album their work, frontman Jarvis Cocker stated that the band would give their winnings to the organization the charity.
That year, artist she shared her bounty between several charities, such as the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I donated a grand to the center, to their classes, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite explained to outlets.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their funds to the youth organization that nurtured their group, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally 1994 winners the group contributed their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was identified with the condition.
"Winning was quite enough," remarked artist the singer. "The cash was the cherry on top but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted somebody else's life."
Recently, the trust announced it had rescued a couple of small stages in south-east England, by transferring them to local control.
One venue in Southampton and the other in Bristol were bought under the public acquisition program, which is backed by a national body and enthusiasts who purchase "shares" in the venues.
