The artist has given the complete sum of his twenty-five thousand pound award cash to the Music Venues Trust, which works to protect the United Kingdom's small live music spots.
He was presented with the prize on 16 October as his latest record People Watching was named the top album of the past year.
Fender has chosen to give the cash to the trust, in appreciation of the essential function local spots fulfilled in his early career.
"I couldn't be pursuing this success if it hadn't been for all the performances I performed around the area, and beyond, when I was starting out," remarked the artist. "These spaces are renowned, but they are in difficulty."
From early 2023 onward, at least 150 of these spaces have permanently closed – approximately 16 percent of the whole industry in the UK.
Over the past year, well-known musicians such as Pulp, Coldplay, the singer Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran have all backed the Music Venues Trust in its efforts to support the industry, by adding a modest fee to their ticket prices, which benefits smaller concert halls.
He also participated, raising in excess of £100,000 on his live tour to help thirty-eight local spots across Britain.
These funds helped locations that were dealing with potential shutdown due to difficulties caused by floods, blazes and bereavements, as well as regulatory hurdles, court cases and neighbor objections.
Additional spaces obtained financial assistance in modernizing amenities and gear that helped artists and audiences.
"The notion that revenue from concerts in big venues backs the smaller venues, where it begins for musicians like me, is just logical," Fender has commented.
The musician is among several artists to give his Mercury Prize prize money to good deeds.
In the band received the award in the mid-90s for their album Different Class, frontman Jarvis Cocker stated that the band would give their prize money to the organization the charity.
During 2002, rapper and singer Ms Dynamite divided her prize among a few organizations, including the children's charity and a charity for Sickle Cell.
"I also gave a thousand pounds to my local community centre, to their classes, because I did gymnastics when I was growing up and they required new equipment," the artist shared with the media.
Two years ago, Ezra Collective contributed their prize money to the local youth club that developed their act, alongside other independent music bodies.
And the 1994 recipients the group contributed their winnings to a charity for MS after a acquaintance was identified with the disease.
"The victory was sufficient," said singer Heather Small. "The money was the bonus but we could do without the cherry, because we had the cake. So our victory impacted the lives of others."
Recently, the trust shared it had saved several grassroots venues in the South East, by transferring them to community ownership.
One venue in that area and the second in the city were purchased under the public acquisition initiative, which is backed by Arts Council England and music fans who buy "stakes" in the buildings.
