Director/PDMR Shareholding

21 DECEMBER 2016

NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTION BY PERSON DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES ("PDMR")

Northern Venture Trust PLC ("the Company") has been notified that, following a market purchase, the following PDMR acquired ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company.

PDMR	Date acquired	No. of shares acquired	Purchase price per share (£)	Total current shareholding
Richard James Green	21 December 2016	10,000	0.775	10,000

The Notification of Dealing Form for the above PDMR can be found below.
This notification is made in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation.

Enquiries:

Alastair Conn/Christopher Mellor, NVM Private Equity LLP - 0191 244 6000
Website:  www.nvm.co.uk

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

NOTIFICATION OF DEALING FORM 

1   Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Richard James Green

2   Reason for the notification

a)	Position/status	Director
b)	Initial notification/ Amendment	Initial Notification

3   Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)	Name	Northern Venture Trust PLC
b)	LEI	213800HR3R4WFICYFN46

4   Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary Shares of 25p each         GB0006450703
b)	Nature of the transaction	Market purchase of shares in the issuer
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)  £0.775 Volume(s)  10,000
d)	Aggregated information  - Aggregated volume - Price	Aggregate price  £0.775     Aggregate volume  10,000   Aggregate total  £7,750.00
e)	Date of the transaction	21 December 2016
f)	Place of the transaction	XLON

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Source: Northern Venture Trust PLC via Globenewswire