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 10th 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 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
10th 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
and is also available for inspection at the
National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
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For more information, please
contact:
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Assura plc
David Purcell, Investor Relations
Director
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Tel: 0161 515 2043
Email: Investor@assura.co.uk
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FGS
Global
Gordon Simpson
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Tel: 0207 251 3801
Email: Assura@fgsglobal.com
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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
*EPRA is a registered trademark of
the European Public Real Estate Association.