SKILLCAST GROUP PLC

Remuneration Information • Jan 30, 2025

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Skillcast Group PLC

30 January 2025

30 January 2025

Skillcast Group plc

("Skillcast", the "Group", or the "Company")

Grant of share options

Skillcast Group plc (AIM: SKL), the provider of SaaS compliance software and off-the-shelf e-learning, announces the grant of 1,360,000 share options (the "Options") over ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") to a Director and a number of employees of the Company, under the Skillcast Group plc EMI and Non-Qualifying Share Option Plan. The Options have an exercise price of 42.5 pence per option, being the closing mid-market price of an Ordinary Share on 29 January 2025, the date of the grant.

Of the 1,360,000 Options granted, 360,000 Options have been granted to a director of the Company and persons discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMRs"), as follows:

Director/PDMR	Existing options over Ordinary Shares held	Number of Options granted	Total options held following grant	% of current issued share capital
Richard Steele (CFO)	1,060,000	300,000	1,360,000	1.52%
Sharon Mulligan (Chief People Officer)	240,000	60,000	300,000	0.34%

All 1,360,000 Options will vest equally over four years based on continuing service.

Of the total 1,360,000 Options granted, 651,000 Options are non-tax advantaged share options over Ordinary Shares to employees or freelancers of the Company who are either not resident in the UK or not eligible for EMI options. The remaining 709,000 Options are EMI qualifying options.

Following today's grant of Options, the Company currently has options outstanding over a total of 6,440,000 Ordinary Shares, representing 7.2% of the Company's current issued share capital.

The FCA notifications, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation are appended further below.

For further information, please contact:

Skillcast Group plc Richard Amos, Chairman Vivek Dodd, CEO Richard Steele, CFO	+44 (0) 207 929 5000
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker) James Reeve / Piers Shimwell (Corporate Finance) Jos Pinnington/Tony Quirke (Corporate Broking and Sales)	+44 (0) 203 328 5656

About Skillcast Group plc

Skillcast helps companies build ethical, inclusive, and resilient workplaces. It provides content and technology to digitise and streamline compliance processes and manage them from a single compliance portal. Its product range includes a Learning management system with comprehensive off-the-shelf compliance course libraries, a Policy hub, Staff declarations, Anonymous surveys, CPD tracking, and compliance registers for gifts, expenses, PA dealing, whistleblowing.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Richard Steele

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

CFO

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Skillcast Group plc

b)

LEI

213800OV1WLNFL7YRY20

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Options over ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in Skillcast Group plc

Identification code (ISIN) for Skillcast Group plc ordinary shares: GB00BNLXS042

b)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of options

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
42.5p exercise price	300,000

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

n/a

n/a

e)

Date of the transaction

29 January 2025

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue - grant of options

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Sharon Mulligan

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief People Officer (PDMR)

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Skillcast Group plc

b)

LEI

213800OV1WLNFL7YRY20

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Options over ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in Skillcast Group plc

Identification code (ISIN) for Skillcast Group plc ordinary shares: GB00BNLXS042

b)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of options

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
42.5 exercise price	60,000

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

n/a

n/a

e)

Date of the transaction

29 January 2025

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue - grant of options

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