HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800NE2NCQ67M2M998

1 October 2021

THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting held on Friday 1 October 2021

The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a show of hands. This included four special resolutions authorising:

-     the allotment of ordinary shares for cash on a non-pre-emptive basis up to a nominal value of £1,867,544 (equivalent to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital at today's date);

-     market purchases of the preference stock units of the Company;  

-     market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares up to a maximum of 14.99% of the issued ordinary share capital (equivalent to 11,197,799 ordinary shares as at today's date) at the maximum price per share (exclusive of expenses) not exceeding the higher of: i) 105% of the average middle market quotations for the five business days preceding the date of purchase; and ii) the higher of the last independent bid and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock Exchange; and

-     a general meeting other than an Annual General Meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of 2021 Annual General Meeting, which is available for viewing at:

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

The Company also announces that from the conclusion of today's Annual General Meeting, Jamie Cayzer-Colvin retired from the Board. Penny Freer succeeds Jamie as Chairman of the Board.

For further information please contact:

Neil Hermon

Fund Manager

The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc

Telephone: 020 7818 4351

Johana Woodruff

Henderson Secretarial Services Ltd

Secretary to The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc

Telephone: 020 7818 2220

Laura Thomas

Investment Trust PR Manager

Janus Henderson Investors

Tel: 020 7818 2636