Result of AGM

17 January 2023

Finsbury Growth & Income Trust PLC

(the “Company”)

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Board is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on Tuesday, 17 January 2023, all resolutions as detailed below were duly passed by shareholders on a poll. 

Resolutions	Votes For	%	Votes Against	%	Total Votes Cast	Votes Withheld
Ordinary Resolutions
1. To receive the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 September 2022.	86,635,501	99.99	4,625	0.01	86,640,126	22,864
2. To elect Pars Purewal as a Director of the Company.	86,546,703	99.93	59,207	0.07	86,605,910	53,110
3. To re-elect Simon Hayes as a Director of the Company.	85,340,302	98.54	1,265,165	1.46	86,605,467	57,503
4. To re-elect James Aston as a Director of the Company.	85,271,697	98.45	1,339,807	1.55	86,611,504	51,466
5. To re-elect Kate Cornish-Bowden as a Director of the Company.	85,266,765	98.45	1,339,502	1.55	86,606,267	56,703
6. To re-elect Sandra Kelly as a Director of Company.	85,308,552	98.49	1,303,752	1.51	86,612,304	50,666
7. To re-elect Lorna Tilbian as a Director of the Company.	85,303,240	98.50	1,303,027	1.50	86,606,267	56,703
8. To receive and approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report for year ended 30 September 2022.	86,451,715	99.84	137,827	0.16	86,589,542	73,428
9. To receive and approve the Directors’ Remuneration Policy.	86,434,157	99.83	149,590	0.17	86,583,747	79,223
10. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors to the Company, to hold office from the conclusion of this meeting until the conclusion of the next general meeting at which financial statements are laid before the Company.	86,459,240	99.82	151,767	0.18	86,611,007	51,983
11. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the Auditors of the Company.	86,600,361	99.97	23,646	0.03	86,624,007	38,983
12. To receive and approve the Company’s Dividend Policy, as set out in the Annual Report.	86,624,234	99.99	5,238	0.01	86,629,472	33,518
Special Business
13. To allot securities in the Company. (Ordinary Resolution)	86,565,854	99.93	58,964	0.07	86,624,818	38,172
14. To disapply the rights of pre-emption in relation to the allotment of securities. (Special Resolution)	86,482,660	99.84	139,595	0.16	86,622,255	40,735
15. To disapply pre-emption rights on the sale of Treasury Shares and to sell Treasury Shares at a premium to the net asset value per share.  (Special Resolution)	86,596,346	99.97	30,312	0.03	86,626,658	36,332
16. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of Ordinary shares in the Company. (Special Resolution)	86,606,488	99.97	23,505	0.03	86,629,993	32,997
17. That the Directors be permitted to call General Meetings (excluding the AGM) on not less than 14 clear days’ notice. (Special Resolution)	86,209,333	99.51	420,288	0.49	86,629,621	33,369

A vote Withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes “For” and “Against” a resolution.

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.

As at the date of the Annual General Meeting, the total number of voting rights in the Company was 212,105,211. The Company had 12,886,092 ordinary shares held in Treasury.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism and can be located at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company’s website, www.finsburygt.com

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 and Listing Rule 9.6.3, 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: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. The special business resolutions will additionally be filed with Companies House.

Terms not otherwise defined in this announcement have the meaning given to them in the Notice of Meeting. 

For further information, please contact:

Frostrow Capital LLP Victoria Hale, Company Secretary

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