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RNS Number : 3349P Impact Healthcare REIT PLC 21 May 2024
21 May 2024
Impact Healthcare REIT plc
("Impact" or the "Company")
Result of 2024 Annual General Meeting
The Board of Impact Healthcare REIT plc (ticker: IHR), the real estate
investment trust which gives investors exposure to a diversified portfolio of
UK healthcare real estate assets, in particular care homes, announces that at
the Company's 2024 Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions proposed
at the AGM were voted on and passed by a poll by the Company's shareholders
and the results of the poll, including the proxy votes received, are set out
below.
Resolutions 1 to 14 (inclusive) were proposed as ordinary resolutions and
resolutions 15 to 18 (inclusive) were proposed as special resolutions.
Resolution Votes For* % Votes Against % Total votes validly cast Total votes cast as % of issued share capital Votes Withheld **
1 Receive the Annual Report and Financial Statements Year 31 December 2023 253,990,339 98.07% 5,000,000 1.93% 258,990,339 62.50% 454,356
2 Approve the directors' remuneration policy 259,266,401 99.98% 62,982 0.02% 259,329,383 62.58% 115,312
3 Approve the directors' remuneration report 259,268,331 99.98% 61,052 0.02% 259,329,383 62.58% 115,312
4 Approve the Company's Dividend Policy 259,439,371 100.00% 0 0.00% 259,439,371 62.61% 5,324
5 Re-elect Simon Laffin as a director 253,685,324 99.99% 18,692 0.01% 253,704,016 61.23% 5,740,679
6 Re-elect Rosemary Boot a director 259,323,378 99.95% 120,965 0.05% 259,444,343 62.61% 352
7 Re-elect Amanda Aldridge as a director 256,397,863 98.83% 3,046,479 1.17% 259,444,342 62.61% 353
8 Re-elect Chris Santer as a director 259,419,355 99.99% 24,988 0.01% 259,444,343 62.61% 352
9 Elect Cedi Frederick as a director 259,427,432 99.99% 16,911 0.01% 259,444,343 62.61% 352
10 To re-appoint BDO LLP as the Company's auditor 254,409,647 99.99% 26,900 0.01% 254,436,547 61.40% 5,008,148
11 To authorise the board of directors to determine the auditors remuneration 259,431,918 100.00% 8,629 0.00% 259,440,547 62.61% 4,148
12 To authorise the continuation of the Company 259,434,033 100.00% 1,810 0.00% 259,435,843 62.61% 8,852
13 To authorise the Directors to allot shares under section 551 Companies Act 259,375,339 99.98% 49,328 0.02% 259,424,667 62.61% 20,028
2006
14 Subject to the passing of resolution 11, to authorise the Directors to allot 254,376,269 98.05% 5,048,398 1.95% 259,424,667 62.61% 20,028
additional shares under section 551 Companies Act 2006
15 Subject to the passing of resolution 12, to disapply statutory pre-emption 240,489,252 92.70% 18,935,415 7.30% 259,424,667 62.61% 20,028
rights under section 570 Companies Act 2006
16 Subject to the passing of resolution 13, to disapply statutory pre-emption 240,265,205 92.61% 19,167,961 7.39% 259,433,166 62.61% 11,529
rights under section 570 Companies Act 2006
17 To authorise the Company to make market purchase of its own ordinary shares 252,974,475 97.52% 6,427,561 2.48% 259,402,036 62.60% 42,659
18 To permit general meetings to be called on 14 days' notice 254,380,724 98.05% 5,063,617 1.95% 259,444,341 62.61% 354
Every shareholder has one vote for every Ordinary Share held. As at close of
business on 17 May 2024, the share capital of the Company consisted of
414,368,169 Ordinary Shares with voting rights. The Company does not hold any
shares in Treasury.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed,
other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage
Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .
* Includes discretionary votes.
** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation
of the votes for or against a resolution.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Impact Health Partners LLP via Maitland/AMO
Andrew Cowley
JTC (UK) Limited - Company Secretary 0207 409 0181
Christopher Gibbons Impact.CoSec@jtcgroup.com (mailto:Impact.CoSec@jtcgroup.com)
H/Advisors Maitland (Communications advisor) 07747 113 930
James Benjamin impacthealth-maitland@h-advisors.global
(mailto:impacthealth-maitland@h-advisors.global)
The Company's LEI is 213800AX3FHPMJL4IJ53.
NOTES:
Impact Healthcare REIT plc acquires, renovates, extends and redevelops high
quality healthcare real estate assets in the UK and lets these assets on
long-term full repairing and insuring leases to high-quality established
healthcare operators which offer good quality care, under leases which provide
the Company with attractive levels of rent cover.
The Company aims to provide shareholders with an attractive sustainable
return, principally in the form of quarterly income distributions and with the
potential for capital and income growth, through exposure to a diversified and
resilient portfolio of UK healthcare real estate assets, in particular care
homes for the elderly.
The Company's dividend policy is to maintain a progressive dividend that is
covered by adjusted earnings.
On this basis, the target total dividend for the year ending 31 December 2024
is 6.95 pence per share(*), a 0.18 pence increase over the 6.77 pence in
dividends paid or declared per ordinary share for the year ended 31 December
2023.
The Group's Ordinary Shares trade on the main market of the London Stock
Exchange, premium segment. The Company is a constituent of the FTSE
EPRA/NAREIT index.
* This is a target only and not a profit forecast. There can be no
assurance that the target will be met and it should not be taken as an
indicator of the Company's expected or actual results.
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