Directorate Change

BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc

Appointment of Director:

The Board is pleased to confirm that Mr Michael Peacock will be appointed as a
non executive director of the Company with effect from 1 July 2012. Mr Peacock
is a qualified chartered accountant and will become chairman of the Company's
Audit Committee. He is currently a non executive director of Regenersis PLC and
was Group Finance Director at Victrex plc until his retirement on 7 October
2010. He was formerly with Barclays de Zoete Wedd's corporate finance
department before moving into industry as a finance director.

Mr Peacock currently has no interest in the share capital of the Company.

Creditors' voluntary liquidation:

In 1991 Michael Peacock became Group Finance Director of Peaco Sport Limited
("Peaco"). As part of his role, in April 1992, he was appointed a director of
Running Wild Limited, a non-core business that had been acquired as part of a
group of companies by Peaco in 1991. Michael Peacock's role at Running Wild was
to wind down its remaining insignificant trading operations and to put it into
liquidation. Running Wild was placed into creditors' voluntary liquidation in
December 1992, the principal creditor being another wholly owned subsidiary of
Peaco.

There are no further details or disclosures required under Section 9.6.13R
(1-6) of the Financial Services Authority Listing Rules.

Caroline Driscoll
Company Secretary
Date: 27 June 2012