The artist has handed over the full amount of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which functions to save the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
The star was given the cheque on October 16 as his new release the album was declared the top album of the previous year.
The musician has chosen to donate the funds to the Music Venues Trust, in acknowledgment of the crucial part local spots fulfilled in his beginning days.
"As an artist would not have achieved what I am doing today if it weren't for all the gigs I played around the area, and elsewhere, when I was beginning," said the artist. "These spaces are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the trust in its initiatives to support the industry, by including a small levy to their ticket costs, which benefits independent venues.
He also joined in, generating over £100k on his live tour to help numerous local spots across Britain.
The money helped locations that were dealing with imminent closure due to issues arising from water damage, fire incidents and bereavements, as well as permit problems, conflicts and noise complaints.
Some locations were granted financial assistance in modernizing infrastructure and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted performers and concertgoers.
"The concept that money from performances in major spaces supports the independent spots, where it begins for artists like me, is just logical," Fender has stated.
He is not the first artist to contribute his award prize money to worthy causes.
Back when Pulp won the prize in the mid-90s for their record the album, frontman Cocker declared that the band would give their prize money to the organization War Child.
That year, artist the artist split her bounty among several good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"And I contributed a £1,000 to Highgate Newtown, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they lacked new equipment," she explained to outlets.
In recent years, the band gave their funds to the community center that developed their group, in addition to other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally winners that year they gave their prize to a charity for MS after a friend was found to have the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," stated artist Small. "The cash was the bonus but we didn't need the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the trust revealed it had saved several grassroots venues in that region, by bringing them into community ownership.
The Joiners in that area and the second in that location were acquired under the community ownership scheme, which is funded by a national body and music fans who buy "shares" in the buildings.
