6 APRIL 2020

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 allotment of new ordinary shares pursuant to the Offer Document published on 10 January 2020, the following PDMR acquired ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company.

PDMR	Date acquired	No. of shares acquired	Purchase price per share (£)	Total current shareholding
Richard James Green	3 April 2020	89,743	£0.56	288,926

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:

Simon John/James Bryce, NVM Private Equity LLP - 0191 244 6000
Website:  www.nvm.co.uk

Martin Glanfield, Chief Financial Officer, Mercia Asset Management PLC – 0330 223 1430
Website: www.mercia.co.uk

Neither the contents of the NVM Private Equity LLP or the Mercia Asset Management PLC website,  nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the NVM Private Equity LLP or Mercia Asset Management PLC website (or any other website), are 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

Richard James Green

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)  £0.5571 Volume(s)  89,743
d)	Aggregated information  - Aggregated volume - Price	Aggregate price  £0.5571     Aggregate volume  89,743   Aggregate total  £50,000
e)	Date of the transaction	3 April 2020
f)	Place of the transaction	XLON