The star has donated the entirety of his £25k award prize money to the trust for venues, which works to preserve the UK's grassroots concert spaces.
Fender was awarded the cheque on 16 October as his latest record the album was chosen as the best record of the previous year.
The musician has chosen to donate the funds to the trust, in acknowledgment of the vital role local spots had in his early career.
"I personally would not have achieved this success if it wasn't for all the gigs I played around the North East, and elsewhere, when I was just getting going," remarked the artist. "These locations are iconic, but they are in difficulty."
Beginning in 2023, over 150 of these venues have permanently closed – roughly 16% of the total UK scene.
In the last year, major artists such as Pulp, the group Coldplay, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all aided the trust in its initiatives to keep the scene afloat, by including a small levy to their ticket prices, which supports local stages.
He also took part, raising in excess of £100,000 on his recent tour to help numerous local spots across Britain.
The donation assisted venues that were facing imminent closure due to issues stemming from flooding, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, conflicts and neighbor objections.
Some locations were granted funding support in upgrading amenities and sound and lighting systems that positively impacted artists and audiences.
"The idea that money from performances in major spaces helps the independent spots, where it kicks off for artists like me, is just sensible," Fender has stated.
The musician is not the first artist to contribute his Mercury Prize prize money to charitable organizations.
When the band won the award in the year 1996 for their album Different Class, lead singer Cocker stated that the band would contribute their prize money to the organization War Child.
During 2002, artist the artist split her prize among a few good causes, like the NSPCC and a Sickle Cell charity.
"And I gave a grand to my local community centre, to their gymnastics program, because I did gymnastics when I was younger and they needed better apparatus," she explained to outlets.
In recent years, Ezra Collective donated their prize money to the local youth club that developed their band, in addition to other local music groups.
Additionally winners that year the group donated their prize to a MS organization after a friend was found to have the illness.
"Receiving the award was quite enough," stated singer Small. "The prize was the cherry on top but we didn't require the cherry, because we had the main prize. So our victory impacted another person's life."
Recently, the MVT revealed it had rescued several grassroots venues in that region, by transferring them to community ownership.
The first in that area and The Croft in Bristol were purchased under the Own Our Venues scheme, which is funded by the arts council and supporters who acquire "stakes" in the buildings.
