The artist has donated the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the trust for venues, which works to save the United Kingdom's grassroots music venues.
Fender was given the prize on October 16 as his latest record his work was declared the outstanding release of the past year.
He has decided to donate the funds to the MVT, in recognition of the crucial part local spots played in his early career.
"I personally couldn't be pursuing this success if it hadn't been for all the shows I performed around the area, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," said Fender. "These venues are legendary, but they are in difficulty."
Since the start of 2023, at least 150 of these venues have permanently closed – about 16% of the total UK scene.
Over the past year, top acts like Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Sheeran have all aided the trust in its attempts to support the industry, by applying a small levy to their ticket costs, which goes to help smaller concert halls.
Fender also joined in, generating over £100k on his 2024 arena tour to support numerous small stages across England, Scotland, and Wales.
The money helped venues that were facing imminent closure due to issues caused by water damage, fire incidents and family tragedies, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Other venues were granted monetary aid in modernizing facilities and sound and lighting systems that directly benefitted performers and audiences.
"The idea that revenue from performances in major spaces supports the local stages, where it begins for performers like me, is just logical," Fender has said.
He is not the first artist to donate his Mercury Prize prize money to charitable organizations.
In the band earned the trophy in the year 1996 for their album their work, lead singer the singer stated that the band would contribute their prize money to the non-profit War Child.
During 2002, musician Ms Dynamite split her award among several good causes, including the NSPCC and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also donated a £1,000 to the center, to their gymnastics class, because I trained in gymnastics when I was growing up and they required better apparatus," she told the media.
In recent years, the band contributed their prize money to the youth organization that developed their group, as well as other grassroots music organisations.
Additionally 1994 winners they contributed their prize to a multiple sclerosis charity after a close contact was found to have the illness.
"Winning was sufficient," said artist the singer. "The money was the extra but we didn't require the bonus, because we had the cake. So our winning touched another person's life."
Recently, the Music Venues Trust announced it had rescued a couple of local spots in south-east England, by placing them under public stewardship.
The first in that area and The Croft in Bristol were purchased under the community ownership program, which is funded by Arts Council England and supporters who buy "shares" in the buildings.
