Result of General Meeting

Finsbury Growth & Income Trust PLC

(the ‘Company’)

19 November 2018

Result of General Meeting

Following a General Meeting of the Company, which was held today, the Board is pleased to announce that both of the resolutions put to shareholders were passed on a show of hands, giving the Directors authority to allot Shares and disapply pre-emption rights in respect of the issue of such Shares.

The proxy voting figures are shown below:

Resolutions Votes For % Votes Against % Total Votes Cast Votes
Withheld
Ordinary Resolution
            62,265,996 99.25 467,573 0.75 62,733,569 74,008
Special Resolution
  1. To disapply the rights of pre-emption in relation to the allotment of securities.
61,161,495 97.55 1,536,125   2.45       62,697,620 109,957       

Notes:

Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have been included in the "for" total. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the votes for or against a resolution.

At the date and time of the General Meeting the total number of Ordinary shares of 25p each in issue and the total number of voting rights was 176,921,712.

The proxy voting figures will shortly also be available on the Company's website at www.finsburygt.com

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of General Meeting contained in the Circular dated 29 October 2018, which is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism which can be located at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and on the Company’s website, www.finsburygt.com 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of the special business resolutions passed has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm. The special business resolutions will additionally be filed with Companies House.

Disclaimer: Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.

Enquiries:

Victoria Hale

Frostrow Capital LLP

Company Secretary

Telephone: 020 3170 8732

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