The star has donated the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the MVT, which functions to preserve the Britain's grassroots live music spots.
Fender was awarded the prize on 16 October as his third album People Watching was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
The musician has chosen to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role small stages played in his early career.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it hadn't been for all the performances I played around the North East, and further afield, when I was beginning," remarked the artist. "These locations are legendary, but they are facing challenges."
Since the start of 2023, more than 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, major artists including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by adding a small levy to their admission fees, which supports smaller concert halls.
Fender also participated, collecting over £100k on his recent tour to help numerous local spots across the UK.
These funds supported spaces that were facing imminent closure due to difficulties stemming from flooding, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces were granted funding support in modernizing amenities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and audiences.
"The concept that revenue from performances in large arenas backs the smaller venues, where it begins for performers like me, is just sensible," Fender has commented.
The musician is far from the only musician to give his award winnings to good deeds.
In Pulp won the trophy in 1996 for their release their work, vocalist Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would give their winnings to the charity War Child.
That year, artist Ms Dynamite shared her prize between several good causes, such as the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I contributed a grand to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," she explained to a publication.
Two years ago, the band contributed their funds to the local youth club that supported their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year the group donated their award to a multiple sclerosis charity after a acquaintance was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," stated vocalist Heather Small. "The prize was the extra but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the cake. So our success touched somebody else's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust announced it had saved two grassroots venues in the South East, by bringing them into community ownership.
One venue in Southampton and The Croft in that location were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by the arts council and supporters who acquire "ownership units" in the venues.
