Annual Financial Report

Annual Financial Report and Notice of Annual General Meeting

Shaftesbury PLC (the "Company") announces that the following documents have today been published and sent or made otherwise available to shareholders:

· 2017 Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2017

· Notice of Annual General Meeting and

· Form of Proxy

The above documents will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism. They will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

The 2017 Annual Report and Notice of Annual General Meeting are also available on the Company's website at http://www.shaftesbury.co.uk/investor-relations/index.html

The Company's preliminary results for the year ended 30 September 2017 were released via RNS on 28 November 2017.

The Company's Annual General Meeting will be held on 9 February 2018 at 11am at Ham Yard Hotel, 1 Ham Yard, London W1D 7DT.

Penny Thomas

Company Secretary

18 December 2017

020 7333 8118