Directorate change

5 NOVEMBER 2014

NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC

DIRECTORATE CHANGE

Northern Venture Trust PLC ("the Company") is pleased to announce that at a board meeting held on 5 November 2014, Mr David Mayes was appointed to the board as a non-executive director with immediate effect.

Mr Mayes is aged 50 and is an experienced investment professional and investor with a long-standing involvement in financial markets and previously managed an emerging markets investment team for Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited.  He is currently a trustee director of a major pension fund and a member of its investment committee and is a non-executive director of an EIS-backed pub company and a non-executive director of the Salvation Army International Trustee Company.

Mr Mayes has a beneficial interest in 91,134 ordinary shares in the Company, representing approximately 0.10 per cent of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.

There are no disclosures to be made under paragraph 9.6.13(1)-(6) of the Listing Rules in relation to Mr Mayes' appointment.

Enquiries:

Christopher Mellor, Company Secretary - 0191 244 6000
Website:  www.nvm.co.uk

Neither the contents of the NVM Private Equity Limited website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the NVM Private Equity Limited website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.

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Source: Northern Venture Trust PLC via Globenewswire

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