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RNS Number : 8595E  Assura PLC  29 February 2024

 

29 February 2024

Assura plc

 

Notice of Dividend

 

Assura plc ("Assura" or "the Company"), the UK's leading primary care property
investor and developer, today announces that the next quarterly interim
dividend of 0.82 pence per share will be paid on 10 April 2024 to shareholders
on the register on 8 March 2024 (the "Record Date"). The Ex-dividend Date will
be 7 March 2024.

 

This interim dividend will be wholly Property Income Distribution ("PID").
Forms to register for gross PIDs are available on the Company's website and
must be returned to the Company registrars, Link Group at 10(th) Floor,
Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL to arrive by 4.30pm on 26
March 2024.Please refer to Company's website HERE
(https://www.assuraplc.com/investor-relations/shareholder-information/reit-dividends-and-uk-tax)
for more information.

 

Shareholders may choose for the dividend to be paid either as cash or to be
settled in New Shares via the Scrip Dividend Alternative. The Scrip Dividend
Alternative price is to be calculated using the average of the middle market
quotations for an Ordinary Share, as derived from the Daily Official List of
the London Stock Exchange, for the five consecutive business days commencing
on the Ex-dividend Date and will be announced by the Company and detailed on
the Company's website on 14 March 2024.

 

Any shareholders wishing to take up the Scrip Dividend Alternative, who have
not already done so, will have until 4.30pm on 26 March 2024 either to return
their completed mandate form to the Company registrars, Link Group at 10(th)
Floor, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL (in the case of
shareholdings in certificated form) or to take the necessary action via the
CREST system (in the case of shareholdings in uncertificated form).

 

The Circular concerning this Scrip Dividend Alternative is available on the
Company's website, www.assuraplc.com (http://www.assuraplc.com) and is also
available for inspection at the National Storage
Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

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For more information, please contact:

 

 Assura plc                                   Tel: 0161 515 2043
 David Purcell, Investor Relations Director   Email: Investor@assura.co.uk

 FGS Global                                   Tel: 0207 251 3801

                                            Email: Assura@fgsglobal.com
 Gordon Simpson

 

 

 Notes to Editors

Assura plc is a national healthcare premises specialist and UK REIT based in
Altrincham, UK - caring for more than 600 primary healthcare buildings, from
which over six million patients are served.

 

A constituent of the FTSE 250 and the EPRA* indices, as at 30 September 2023,
Assura's portfolio was valued at £2.7 billion.

 

At Assura, we BUILD for health. Assura builds better spaces for people and
places, invests in skills and inspires new ways of working, and unlocks the
power of design and innovation to deliver lasting impact for communities -
aiming for six million people to have benefitted from improvements to and
through its healthcare buildings by 2026.

 

Assura is leading for a sustainable future, targeting net zero carbon across
its portfolio by 2040.

 

Further information is available at www.assuraplc.com
(http://www.assuraplc.com)

 

*EPRA is a registered trademark of the European Public Real Estate
Association.

 

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