Result of AGM

Northern Venture Trust PLC
14 December 2007


14 DECEMBER 2007


NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC


RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING


Northern Venture Trust PLC (the 'Company') announces that at the annual general
meeting held on 13 December 2007 all of the resolutions set out in the notice of
meeting were duly passed by shareholders.


The resolutions included those to re-elect as directors Mr Michael Denny and
Miss Primrose Scott.


Details of proxy voting on the resolutions put to shareholders at the annual
general meeting are as follows:


Number      Resolution                       For                   Discretionary    Against          Abstentions

1           To receive the financial         2,589,641             121,816           Nil             5,150
            statements for the year
            ended 30 September 2007

2           To declare a final               2,566,921             124,966        14,420            10,300
            dividend of 6.0p per
            ordinary share

3           To declare a final               2,504,571             174,036           Nil            38,000
            dividend of 1.0p per C
            share

4           To approve the directors'        2,514,398             121,816        30,137            50,256
            remuneration report

5           To re-elect Mr E M P Denny       2,555,868             124,816        11,067            24,856
            as a director
6           To re-elect Miss P S Scott       2,466,298             124,816       100,637            24,856
            as a director

7           To reappoint KPMG Audit          2,510,113             122,816           Nil            83,678
            Plc as independent
            auditors

8           To authorise the directors       2,565,715             131,036           Nil            19,856
            to fix the remuneration of
            the independent auditors

9           To authorise the directors       2,534,528             121,816        44,687            15,576
            to allot shares pursuant
            to Section 80 of the
            Companies Act 1985

10          To disapply Section 89 of        2,517,674             121,816        42,626            34,491
            the Companies Act 1985 in
            relation to certain
            allotments of equity
            securities

11          To authorise the Company         2,565,539             121,816        23,976             5,276
            to make market purchases
            of ordinary shares and C
            shares
            in accordance with Section
            166 of the Companies Act
            1985

12          To amend article 61 of the       2,525,650             141,340        35,037            14,580
            Company's articles of
            association


For further enquiries please contact the Company Secretary:

Christopher Mellor

(0191 244 6012)

Website:  www.nvm.co.uk


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