Accounting Reference Date

NewMedia SPARK PLC
30 March 2000

                                NEW MEDIA SPARK
                                       
                           ACCOUNTING REFERENCE DATE

The  Company announces that its accounting reference date is 31 March and that
its  first  accounting  period  end will be in  respect  of  the  period  from
incorporation, on 26 July 1999, to 31 March 2000.