The star has donated the entirety of his £25k award cash to the trust for venues, which operates to preserve the United Kingdom's small music venues.
Fender was given the award on mid-October as his latest record his work was chosen as the top album of the previous year.
He has chosen to hand the money over to the trust, in recognition of the crucial part small stages had in his beginning days.
"As an artist couldn't be pursuing what I am doing today if it weren't for all the gigs I performed around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," said the artist. "These venues are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, over 150 of these spaces have shut down – about 16% of the total UK scene.
In the last year, top acts like Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all supported the MVT in its attempts to support the industry, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which goes to help local stages.
He also participated, generating more than £100,000 on his recent tour to help numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported spaces that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by floods, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as licensing issues, conflicts and noise complaints.
Other venues were granted monetary aid in improving infrastructure and gear that directly benefitted musicians and fans.
"The concept that revenue from shows in large arenas helps the local stages, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just common sense," the star has commented.
The musician is among several artists to give his Mercury Prize prize money to charitable organizations.
Back when they received the award in the mid-90s for their release Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker declared that the band would give their winnings to the organization the charity.
That year, rapper and singer the artist divided her prize among multiple organizations, including the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell organization.
"I also contributed a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics class, because I practiced gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," she explained to a publication.
In recent years, the band donated their funds to the local youth club that developed their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
And the 1994 recipients the group contributed their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a friend was found to have the disease.
"Winning was ample," said vocalist Heather Small. "The money was the bonus but we didn't require the extra, because we had the cake. So our victory touched another person's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust revealed it had protected two small stages in the South East, by transferring them to public stewardship.
One venue in Southampton and the second in the city were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who purchase "ownership units" in the venues.
