The star has handed over the complete sum of his £25k Mercury Prize cash to the trust for venues, which operates to protect the United Kingdom's small live music spots.
The star was presented with the cheque on mid-October as his latest record People Watching was declared the best record of the past year.
The musician has chosen to hand the money over to the trust, in recognition of the essential function grassroots venues played in his initial steps.
"I wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the performances I performed around the region, and further afield, when I was just getting going," said Fender. "These spaces are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these venues have ceased operations – about 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including the band Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by applying a minor surcharge to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Fender also participated, collecting more than £100,000 on his recent tour to support numerous local spots across Britain.
These funds helped spaces that were dealing with imminent closure due to challenges caused by flooding, blazes and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, legal disputes and sound issues.
Other venues received monetary aid in modernizing infrastructure and technical equipment that directly benefitted musicians and fans.
"The concept that money from performances in large arenas backs the local stages, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," Fender has said.
The musician is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize prize money to charitable organizations.
When they received the trophy in 1996 for their album Different Class, frontman the singer declared that the act would contribute their cash to the organization War Child.
In 2002, artist she shared her award between several organizations, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"Additionally, I gave a thousand pounds to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked new equipment," the artist shared with a publication.
Previously, Ezra Collective gave their winnings to the youth organization that developed their band, alongside other grassroots music organisations.
Also winners that year M People gave their prize to a MS organization after a close contact was found to have the condition.
"Winning was ample," said singer the singer. "The money was the cherry on top but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our success impacted another person's life."
Last week, the trust announced it had rescued a couple of small stages in that region, by transferring them to community ownership.
The first in that area and The Croft in the city were bought under the public acquisition initiative, which is supported by Arts Council England and supporters who buy "ownership units" in the buildings.
