Director/PDMR Shareholding

20 AUGUST 2021

NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTION BY PERSON DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES (“PDMR”)

Northern Venture Trust PLC (“the Company”) has been notified that in respect of the interim dividend and second interim dividend for the financial year ending 30 September 2021 paid on 20 August 2021, the following PDMR acquired ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company through his participation in the Company's dividend investment scheme.

PDMR	Date a cquired	No. of s hares a cquired	Purchase price per s hare ( £ )	Total c urrent s hareholding
Simon John Constantine	20 August 2021	36,720	£0.729	376,335

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:

Simon John/James Bryce, NVM Private Equity LLP - 0191 244 6000
Website: www.nvm.co.uk

Martin Glanfield, Chief Financial Officer, Mercia Asset Management PLC – 0330 223 1430
Website: www.mercia.co.uk

Neither the contents of the NVM Private Equity LLP or the Mercia Asset Management PLC website, nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the NVM Private Equity LLP or Mercia Asset Management PLC website (or any other website), are 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

Simon John Constantine

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	Issue of Ordinary Shares under the Company's dividend investment scheme
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) £0.792 Volume(s) 36,720
d)	Aggregated information  - Aggregated volume - Price	Aggregate price £0.792 Aggregate volume 36,720 Aggregate total £29,082.24
e)	Date of the transaction	20 August 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	XLON