The star has donated the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound award winnings to the trust for venues, which functions to preserve the United Kingdom's independent concert spaces.
The star was awarded the cheque on 16 October as his new release his work was declared the top album of the previous year.
Fender has chosen to hand the money over to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role grassroots venues played in his beginning days.
"I wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the area, and beyond, when I was beginning," said Fender. "These spaces are legendary, but they are struggling."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have shut down – roughly 16 percent of the entire UK sector.
Over the past year, major artists like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its attempts to help venues survive, by adding a small levy to their admission fees, which benefits smaller concert halls.
Fender also took part, generating over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to support thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
The donation helped spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by flooding, blazes and bereavements, as well as permit problems, legal disputes and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces received funding support in upgrading infrastructure and gear that positively impacted artists and concertgoers.
"The notion that revenue from shows in big venues supports the local stages, where it begins for musicians like me, is just logical," Fender has commented.
He is far from the only musician to donate his Mercury Prize winnings to good deeds.
When the band earned the award in 1996 for their record the album, frontman Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would contribute their prize money to the non-profit the charity.
That year, musician the artist divided her award among multiple good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I donated a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was a child and they lacked better apparatus," Ms Dynamite shared with the media.
Previously, the band contributed their winnings to the youth organization that nurtured their band, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Also 1994 winners they contributed their prize to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was identified with the condition.
"Winning was ample," stated artist the singer. "The prize was the bonus but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the main prize. So our victory impacted another person's life."
In the past week, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had rescued a couple of local spots in that region, by transferring them to community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and The Croft in the city were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is backed by the arts council and enthusiasts who buy "shares" in the venues.
