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The AGM will be held at 11am on 5 February 2025 at Baillie Gifford's offices in Edinburgh. Please see pages 105 to 110 of the Annual Report and Financial Statements that sets out the AGM location and directions thereto. It is the Board's present intention to hold the Company's AGM in London and Edinburgh on alternate years in order to reach as many shareholders as possible. The Managers will make a presentation and I [Michael MacPhee] look forward to meeting shareholders who are able to attend.

To accurately reflect the views of shareholders of the Company, the Board intends to hold the AGM voting on a poll, rather than by a show of hands as has been customary. This will ensure an exact and definitive result. The Board encourages all shareholders to exercise their votes on the AGM resolutions by completing and submitting the form of proxy enclosed with the Annual Report to ensure that your votes are represented at the meeting (whether or not you intend to attend in person). If you hold shares through a share platform or other nominee, the Board encourages you to contact these organisations directly as soon as possible to arrange for you to submit votes in advance of the AGM. Alternatively, the Association of Investment Companies' ('AIC') website theaic.co.uk/how-to-vote-your-shares has information on how to vote your shares if you hold them via one of the major platforms. The following link will also take you through to the AIC website where there is information on how your platform can help you attend the AGM in person theaic.co.uk/how-to-attend-an-AGM.

Should shareholders have questions for the Board or the Managers or any queries as to how to vote, they are welcome, as always, to submit them by email to [email protected] or call 0800 917 2112.

Information on the resolutions can be found on pages 56 to 58 of the Annual Report and Financial Statements. The Directors consider that all resolutions to be put to shareholders are in their and the Company's best interests as a whole and recommend that shareholders vote in their favour.