Half-yearly report

11 JUNE 2012

NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC

HALF-YEARLY REPORT

A copy of the Northern Venture Trust PLC's unaudited half-yearly financial report for the six months ended 31 March 2012 has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

A copy of the half-yearly financial report is also available on the NVM Private Equity website at:
http://www.nvm.co.uk/nvthyr2012.

Enquiries:

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

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

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