Lighthouse Regulatory News (LGT)

Lighthouse Group plc

('Lighthouse' or 'the Group')

Affinity Renewal and Contract Win

Lighthouse Group plc (AIM:LGT), the national financial adviser of choice for Middle Britain, is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Lighthouse Financial Advice ("LFA") has signed a two year contract to provide financial planning advice to members of Parliament Hill Ltd ("Parliament Hill"). In addition the Group is pleased to announce that LFA has renewed its contract with Prospect, the UK's largest union for professional engineers, for a further three years. Lighthouse has been working with Prospect since 2007 and will continue to be the exclusive provider of expert financial advice to Prospect's members.

Parliament Hill was established in 2004 and works with over 60 membership organisations managing members' benefits packages. Its clients include a number of major institutions and associations such as trade unions, colleges, clubs and societies. With in excess of 1.5 million members, Parliament Hill represents another significant affinity partner contract for Lighthouse. Prospect has over 120,000 members, including engineers, scientists, managers and specialists in areas as diverse as agriculture, defence, energy, environment, heritage, shipbuilding, telecoms and transport. Prospect supports the needs of all its members and negotiates with more than 300 employers, on pay and conditions and a range of issues that affect members working lives.

The contract win and renewal represent further significant developments to LFA's affinity partnerships, which already include major employee organisations such as UNISON, The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, BA Clubs, the Association of School and College Leaders and the Civil Service Motoring Association (CSMA Club).

Andrew Holden, Director of Parliament Hill, commented: "Parliament Hill is delighted to be able to offer our members a financial advice service through Lighthouse Financial Advice. This new membership offer will benefit our members and we look forward to developing a strong relationship between Lighthouse and Parliament Hill."

Mike Graham, Head of National Organising, Recruitment and Development of Prospect commented: "Prospect has enjoyed a successful relationship with Lighthouse over the past three years and we are delighted to renew the contract with Lighthouse and look forward to developing the relationship further over the next three years."

Malcolm Streatfield, Chief Executive Officer of Lighthouse commented: "The Board is delighted that LFA has secured this partnership with Parliament Hill and to have achieved a further increase in the number of affinity contracts for LFA. We look forward to developing a strong relationship with Parliament Hill over the coming two years and to providing expert financial advice to its members across the UK.

"The contract renewal with Prospect is a further endorsement of the high quality financial advice that LFA provides all participating members in our affinity groups. The Board is pleased with the success already achieved in this space and continues to work to increase our affinity partnerships through the LFA division."

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Notes to Editors

Lighthouse Group plc, listed on AIM since 2000, is the UK's largest autonomous national intermediary providing financial advice to personal and corporate clients via circa 500 experienced advisers located throughout the UK. Lighthouse is the financial adviser of choice for "middle Britain" and to employees in the SME market. It is also a leading provider of financial advice to members of major trade unions and other affinity groups.

Lighthouse Group plc operates through three principal divisions, Lighthouse Financial Advice ("LFA"), LighthouseCarrwood ("Carrwood") and Lighthouse Advisory Services ("LAS"). LFA provides financial advice to large employer organisations and unions through affinity relationships, and its clients include Unite, GMB, Prospect, Unison, USDAW and Parliament Hill. Carrwood is dedicated to providing independent financial advice to high net worth individuals and to corporates. It has working relationships with professional advisory businesses such as accounting firms. LAS is a network business providing regulatory authorisation, professional indemnity insurance, income collection and compliance services to financial advisers operating under their own brands. LAS also has access to the market leading operating system, Lighthouse Fairway, based on a unique integration of two leading software packages, Intelligent Office and Dynamic Planner, which is available to all advisers in the Group.

On 30 January 2014 Lighthouse announced the launch of its Lighthouse Pensions Trust ("LPT") targeting the imminent commencement of automatic enrolment, particularly for UK SMEs, through the Group's Employee Benefits business within Carrwood.

The Group has demonstrated considerable resilience during the pre - and post - Retail Distribution Review period against a backdrop of substantial regulatory and business change. The Group's growth strategy entails operating efficiently through investment in and application of technology investment and risk-rated researched solutions.

The Group aims to increase its relationships with and the benefits it derives from its relationships with affinity groups and professional partners in LFA and Carrwood respectively, Lighthouse operates from its headquarters in London as well as having principal operating offices in Stockport and Woodingdean, near Brighton.

For more information please visit: http://www.lighthousegroup.plc.uk/