Baronsmead Second Venture Trust plc is a tax-efficient venture trust, making investments focused on supporting the UK’s very best growth businesses.
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Why invest
Baronsmead Second Venture Trust plc has a strong track record of dividends and long-term investment performance.
The Baronsmead VCT funds are concentrated on sectors, markets and companies that benefit from long term structural growth trends.
Our VCT investment team has a wide network of entrepreneurs and broad specialist skills, injecting capital and support to push exciting businesses to the next level through Baronsmead Second Venture Trust plc.
The Baronsmead VCT funds benefit from the experience of the wider Gresham House network, enabling the team to resource investees financially and practically, offering mentorship and advice throughout their development cycle.
Our approach
Baronsmead Second Venture Trust plc has a large, diversified portfolio and maintains a robust pipeline of new investment opportunities – with an increasing rate of deployment.
We seek to invest in innovative companies that we believe will be crucial to the UK economy in the years to come, providing capital and expertise to accelerate growth at a critical stage of their journey.
Drawing on our VCT investment team’s extensive network and skills, we invest capital and provide support to push exciting businesses to the next level at pivotal points. We concentrate our efforts on markets and companies benefiting from long term structural growth.

How to invest
Prospective and current investors can invest in the Baronsmead VCTs by subscribing for shares when the Companies raise funds through new share issuance. The VCTs have raised over £500m since 1995, with £43m of new shares issued in the last tax year. The minimum subscription amount under the last offer was £3,000.
Investors may also buy shares in the VCTs on the secondary market, but without the same VCT tax relief benefits.
Investors can also access access more information about the VCT share price and the company through the listed company (ticker: BSVT)
To receive information about share offers please sign up using the form below:
Important information
Prospective investors should carefully consider the risks associated with this form of investment and seek advice from a qualified financial adviser. Investment in smaller unquoted companies involves a higher degree of risk than investment in larger companies. VCT shares are infrequently traded, so shares are often valued at a discount to their Net Asset Value and may be difficult to realise. Shareholders may be offered a price which is less than the full value of the underlying assets.
Warning to Shareholders
Many companies are aware that their shareholders have received unsolicited phone calls or correspondence concerning investment matters. These are typically from “brokers” based overseas who target UK shareholders offering to sell them what often turn out to be worthless or high risk shares in US or UK investments. They can be very persistent and extremely persuasive. Shareholders are therefore advised to be very wary of any unsolicited advice, offers to buy shares at a discount or offers for free company reports.
Please note that it is very unlikely that either the Company or the Company Registrar, Computershare, would make unsolicited telephone calls to shareholders and that any such calls would relate only to official documentation already circulated to shareholders and never in respect of investment “advice”.
If you are in any doubt about the veracity of an unsolicited phone call, please call either the Company or the Registrar at the
numbers provided below.
Protect Yourself
If you are offered unsolicited investment advice, discounted shares, a premium price for shares you own, or free company or
research reports, you should take these steps before handing over any money or share certificates:
- Get the name of the person and organisation contacting you.
- Check the FCA Register at www.fca.org.uk/register to ensure they are authorised (or www.fca.org.uk/publication/systems-information/aifmd-small-register.pdf).
- Use the details on the FCA Register to contact the firm.
- Call the FCA Consumer Helpline on 0800 111 6768 (freephone) from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday (except public
holidays) and 9am to 1pm, Saturday (from abroad call +44 20 7066 1000) if there are no contact details on the
Register or you are told they are out of date. - Search the FCA’s list of unauthorised firms and individuals to avoid doing business with.
- REMEMBER: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
If you use an unauthorised firm to buy or sell shares or other investments, you will not have access to the Financial
Ombudsman Service (https://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/) or Financial Services Compensation Scheme
(https://www.fscs.org.uk/) if things go wrong.
Report a Scam
If you are approached about a share scam you should tell the FCA using the Share Fraud Reporting Form
(www.fca.org.uk/consumers/report-scam-unauthorised-firm), where you can find out about the latest investment scams.
You can also call the FCA Consumer Helpline on 0800 111 6768.
If you have already paid money (or otherwise dealt with share fraudsters) you should contact ActionFraud on 0300 123 2040 or use the ActionFraud (https://www.actionfraudalert.co.uk/) Online Reporting Tool.
More detailed information on this or similar activity can be found on the FCA website.
Board
Investment team
Investor Relations queries
Computershare Investor Services plc | Gresham House | |||
0800 923 1534 https://www.computershare.com/uk The Pavilions Bridgwater Road Bristol BS13 8AE | 020 7382 0999 baronsmeadvcts@greshamhouse.com |
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
The Baronsmead Second Venture Trust plc AGM was held on 16 February 2022 at Saddlers’ Hall, 40 Gutter Lane, London EC2V 6BR.
The Results of AGM announcement has been released on 17 February 2022. The results are listed below.
Resolutions | Votes For | For (%) | Votes Against | Against (%) | Votes Withheld | Total Votes | % of Issued Share Capital voted |
Resolution 1 |
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To receive and adopt the accounts for the year ended 30 September 2021 | 19,335,313 | 99.93 | 13,138 | 0.07 | 93,527 | 19,348,451 | 6.29 |
Resolution 2 |
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To declare a final dividend of 3.5 pence per share | 19,426,766 | 99.92 | 15,212 | 0.08 | 0 | 19,441,978 | 6.32 |
Resolution 3 |
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To approve Directors’ Remuneration Report for the year ended 30 September 2021 | 17,819,304 | 93.34 | 1,272,072 | 6.66 | 350,602 | 19,091,376 | 6.20 |
Resolution 4 |
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Re-election of Sarah Fromson | 18,732,162 | 97.93 | 395,152 | 2.07 | 314,664 | 19,127,314 | 6.21 |
Resolution 5 |
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Re-election of Malcolm Groat | 18,825,663 | 98.57 | 273,692 | 1.43 | 342,623 | 19,099,355 | 6.20 |
Resolution 6 |
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To elect Tim Farazmand | 18,797,199 | 98.48 | 290,487 | 1.52 | 354,292 | 19,087,686 | 6.20 |
Resolution 7 |
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To elect Graham Mcdonald | 18,815,130 | 98.72 | 243,206 | 1.28 | 383,642 | 19,058,336 | 6.19 |
Resolution 8 |
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To appoint BDO as the Auditor | 18,221,803 | 98.95 | 193,934 | 1.05 | 1,026,241 | 18,415,737 | 5.98 |
Resolution 9 |
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Authorise Audit Committee to determine auditor remuneration | 19,228,422 | 99.59 | 79,939 | 0.41 | 133,617 | 19,308,361 | 6.27 |
Resolution 10 |
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Authority to allot shares | 19,169,787 | 99.06 | 181,829 | 0.94 | 90,362 | 19,351,616 | 6.29 |
Resolution 11 |
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Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 18,446,996 | 96.07 | 755,101 | 3.93 | 221,876 | 19,202,097 | 6.24 |
Resolution 12 |
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Market purchases of own shares | 19,070,725 | 98.69 | 253,393 | 1.31 | 127,267 | 19,324,118 | 6.28 |
Resolution 13 |
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General meeting called on not less than 14 clear days’ notice | 18,278,579 | 94.27 | 1,110,113 | 5.73 | 53,286 | 19,338,692 | 6.30 |
Resolution 14 |
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Amendment of Articles of Association | 18,684,895 | 97.66 | 447,249 | 2.34 | 309,834 | 19,132,144 | 6.22 |
Resolution 15 |
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Cancellation of share premium account | 18,180,116 | 98.19 | 335,094 | 1.81 | 908,157 | 18,515,210 | 6.02 |