22 DECEMBER 2017

NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTION BY PERSON DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES ("PDMR")

Northern Venture Trust PLC ("the Company") has been notified that in respect of the final dividend for the financial year ended 30 September 2017 paid on 22 December 2017, the following PDMR acquired ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company through his participation in the Company's dividend investment scheme.

PDMR	Date acquired	No. of shares acquired	Purchase price per share (£)	Total current shareholding
Simon John Constantine	22 December 2017	12,594	£0.696	309,791

The Notification of Dealing Form for the above PDMR can be found below.
This notification is made in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation.

Enquiries:

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

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

NOTIFICATION OF DEALING FORM 

1   Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Simon John Constantine

2   Reason for the notification

a)	Position/status	Director
b)	Initial notification/ Amendment	Initial Notification

3   Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)	Name	Northern Venture Trust PLC
b)	LEI	213800HR3R4WFICYFN46

4   Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary Shares of 25p each         GB0006450703
b)	Nature of the transaction	Issue of Ordinary Shares under the Company's dividend investment scheme
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)  £0.696 Volume(s)  12,594
d)	Aggregated information  - Aggregated volume - Price	Aggregate price  £0.696     Aggregate volume  12,594   Aggregate total  £8,765.42
e)	Date of the transaction	22 December 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	XLON

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