The artist has handed over the entirety of his twenty-five thousand pound award prize money to the trust for venues, which functions to save the UK's grassroots live music spots.
Fender was presented with the award on 16 October as his latest record his work was declared the top album of the past year.
Fender has chosen to give the cash to the Music Venues Trust, in appreciation of the vital role small stages fulfilled in his initial steps.
"I personally wouldn't be doing my current career if it hadn't been for all the performances I played around the area, and beyond, when I was starting out," stated Fender. "These locations are iconic, but they are facing challenges."
From early 2023 onward, over 150 of these venues have shut down – approximately one-sixth of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians including Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Sheeran have all supported the Music Venues Trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a modest fee to their admission fees, which supports independent venues.
Fender also took part, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to support numerous grassroots venues across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money supported spaces that were dealing with imminent closure due to difficulties caused by flooding, fire incidents and personal losses, as well as licensing issues, court cases and sound issues.
Some locations were granted financial assistance in improving amenities and gear that positively impacted artists and concertgoers.
"The idea that revenue from performances in large arenas supports the independent spots, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just logical," Fender has commented.
Fender is not the first artist to contribute his Mercury Prize prize money to good deeds.
When Pulp won the award in the mid-90s for their record the album, lead singer Jarvis Cocker announced that the act would donate their prize money to the charity War Child.
During 2002, artist the artist split her bounty across a few good causes, such as the children's charity and a Sickle Cell organization.
"And I contributed a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I trained in gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," she told outlets.
In recent years, Ezra Collective contributed their funds to the youth organization that nurtured their group, as well as other independent music bodies.
Also winners that year they contributed their prize to a MS organization after a friend was found to have the disease.
"Receiving the award was ample," said artist the singer. "The prize was the extra but we didn't need the cherry, because we had the cake. So our victory touched somebody else's life."
Recently, the MVT announced it had protected two local spots in that region, by transferring them to local control.
One venue in the city and the second in the city were purchased under the public acquisition program, which is supported by the arts council and music fans who purchase "shares" in the venues.
