In the previous year, given the huge uncertainties surrounding the impact of COVID-19, and in common with very many businesses, the board felt it was prudent not to recommend the payment of a dividend. A year on, having successfully navigated 2020, and with growing confidence on an end to the worst of the pandemic, we now consider that it is appropriate to recommence dividend payments. Accordingly, we have paid an interim dividend of £0.25p per share to make up for the payment missed last year and this has been paid in the tax year 2020/21, on the 31 March 2021.

Further information on future distributions will be available in the Report and Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 when they are released to shareholders.