JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENITIFIER: 213800NE2NCQ67M2M998

1 July 2025

THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

General Meeting held on Tuesday, 1 July 2025

The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc announces that, at the General Meeting held earlier today, the proposed special resolution was duly passed on a poll.

The special resolution authorises:

§      market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares up to a maximum of 14.99% of the issued ordinary share capital excluding shares held in Treasury (equivalent to 10,102,879 ordinary shares as at close on 30 June 2025) at the maximum price per share (exclusive of expenses) not exceeding the higher of: a) 105% of the average middle market quotations for the five business days preceding the date of purchase; and b) the higher of the last independent bid and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock Exchange;

§      this authority shall expire at the conclusion of the annual general meeting, expected to be held in October 2025.

The full text of the resolution can be found in the Notice of General Meeting issued on 6 June 2025, which is available for viewing at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

The poll results will shortly be available on the Company's website at:

www.hendersonsmallercompanies.com

The special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM website at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

The poll results received were as follows:

Poll Results for the General Meeting held at 10.00 am on Tuesday, 1 July 2025

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at close of business on 27 June 2025, being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members to attend and vote at the AGM. A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and has therefore not been counted as a vote 'for' or 'against' any resolutions. The aggregate number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 74,385,131, of which 6,987,667 were held in Treasury at close on 30 June 2025. Each ordinary share carries one vote.

For further information please contact:

Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Ltd

Corporate Secretary to The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc

Telephone: 020 7818 1818

Harriet Hall

PR Director Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Tel: 020 7818 2919