AGM voting results

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Ordinary resolution 3
To re-elect David Brown as a Director of the Company.

Ordinary resolution 10
To approve the Remuneration Annual Statement, the Directors’ Remuneration Policy Report and the Annual Report on Remuneration for the year ended 30 September 2024.

Ordinary resolution 12
To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company to determine the remuneration of the auditor.

Ordinary resolution 13
THAT the Directors of the Company (the “Directors”) be and are generally and unconditionally authorised pursuant to and in accordance with Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the “Act”) to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot shares in the capital of the Company (“Shares”) or grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into Shares (“Rights”) up to an aggregate nominal amount of £2,637,000, such authority to apply in substitution for all previous authorities pursuant to Section 551 of the Act to the extent unutilised and to expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or, if earlier, at the close of business on 27 April 2026 (unless renewed, varied or revoked by the Company prior to or on such date) but, in each case, save that the Company may make offers and enter into agreements before this authority expires which would, or might, require Shares to be allotted or Rights to be granted after this authority expires and the Directors may allot such Shares or grant such Rights pursuant to any such agreement as if this authority had not expired.

Special resolution 14
THAT, subject to the passing of resolution 13, the Directors of the Company (the “Directors”) be empowered to allot equity securities (as defined in the Companies Act 2006 (the “Act”)) for cash under the authority given by resolution 13 and/or to sell Ordinary Shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if Section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such power to be limited:

(a) in connection with an offer by way of a rights issue or other pre-emptive issues to holders of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company in proportion (as nearly may be practicable) to their respective holdings of such shares, but subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements, record dates, or any legal or practical problems under the laws of any territory, or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange;

(b) to the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares (otherwise than under paragraph (a) above) up to an aggregate nominal amount of £791,380; and

(c) to the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares (otherwise than under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above) up to a nominal amount equal to 20 per cent of any allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares from time to time under paragraph (b) above, such authority to be used only for the purposes of making a follow-on offer which the Directors determine to be of a kind contemplated by paragraph 3 of section 2B of the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this Notice,

such power to expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or, if earlier, at the close of business on 27 April 2026 but, in each case, prior to its expiry the Company may make offers and enter into agreements which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and/or treasury shares to be sold) after the power expires and the Directors may allot equity securities (and/or sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the power had not expired.

Special resolution 15
THAT, subject to the passing of resolution 13, the Directors of the Company (the “Directors”) be empowered in addition to any power granted under resolution 14 to allot equity securities (as defined in the Companies Act 2006 (the “Act”)) for cash under the authority given by resolution 13 and/or to sell Ordinary Shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if Section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such power to be limited:

(a) to the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares up to an aggregate nominal amount of £791,380, such power to be used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing, if the power is to be used within 12 months after the original transaction) a transaction which the Directors determine to be either an acquisition or a specified capital investment of a kind contemplated by the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this Notice; and

(b) to the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares (otherwise than under paragraph (a) above) up to a nominal amount equal to 20 per cent of any allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares from time to time under paragraph (a) above, such authority to be used only for the purposes of making a follow-on offer which the Directors determine to be of a kind contemplated by paragraph 3 of section 2B of the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this Notice,

such power to expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or, if earlier, at the close of business on 27 April 2026 but, in each case, prior to its expiry the Company may make offers and enter into agreements which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and/or treasury shares to be sold) after the power expires and the Directors may allot equity securities (and/or sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the power had not expired.