Result of General Meeting

18 JULY 2013

NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC

RESULT OF GENERAL MEETING

Northern Venture Trust PLC ("the Company") announces that at the general meeting held on 18 July 2013 all of the resolutions set out in the notice of meeting were duly passed by shareholders.

In accordance with the Disclosure Rules and Transparency Rules, a copy of the resolutions proposed and passed (including the resolution which amended the Company's articles of association and a copy of the amended articles of association) have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and is also available on the NVM Private Equity website at: www.nvm.co.uk/nvtgm2013.

Resolutions 1 to 3 were duly passed on a show of hands and details of proxy voting on the resolutions put to shareholders at the general meeting are as follows:

Number	Resolution	For	Discretionary	Against	Vote withheld
1	To authorise the Directors to allot shares pursuant to Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 in connection with the Offer	11,421,591	217,974	320,103	7,245
2	To disapply Section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 in relation to certain allotments of equity securities pursuant to the Offer	11,305,809	217,974	420,422	22,708
3	To amend the articles of association	11,351,321	217,974	367,723	29,895

Resolution 4 was duly passed on a poll vote and the result is as follows:

No	Resolution	For	Against	Voted total	% of issued share capital	Vote withheld
4	To authorise amendments to the management and investment advisory agreement dated 6 November 1997 between the Company and the Manager	9,147,992	2,545,906	11,693,898	15.41%	273,015

Enquiries:

Christopher Mellor, NVM Private Equity Limited - 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.

---

This announcement is distributed by Thomson Reuters on behalf of Thomson Reuters clients.

The owner of this announcement warrants that:
(i) the releases contained herein are protected by copyright and other applicable laws; and
(ii) they are solely responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the
information contained therein.

Source: Northern Venture Trust PLC via Thomson Reuters ONE

HUG#1717476