TheWorks.co.uk plcLSE: WRKS

TheWorks.co.uk: Director/PDMR Shareholding

· Issued by TheWorks.co.uk plc

Summary by 6ix AI

On October 1, 2026, The Works, a UK retailer of affordable, screen-free activities for families, granted nil-cost options (rights to receive shares without paying for them) under its 2018 Long Term Incentive Plan to Chief Executive Officer Gavin Peck and Chief Financial Officer Rosie Fordham.

Key details

  • Gavin Peck received an award over 610,044 ordinary shares of 1 pence each.
  • Rosie Fordham received an award over 275,768 ordinary shares of 1 pence each.
  • The awards carry equally weighted earnings and share price performance conditions, in line with previous awards.
  • The awards were granted outside a trading venue.

What’s still pending

  • The awards vest only to the extent the performance conditions are met, assessed over a performance period ending in the 2029 financial year.
  • The Remuneration Committee may adjust how much vests, considering the Group's overall financial performance over the period and whether any value in the awards is a "windfall gain".
  • Shares from vested awards are subject to a further two-year holding period.

6ix AI wrote this summary from the release below and checked it against the release.

TheWorks PLC
06 October 2026
 

TheWorks plc

("The Works", the "Company" or the "Group")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Works, the UK's leading specialist retailer of affordable, screen-free activities for the whole family, today announces that on 1 October 2026, the Company granted awards over ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company under its 2018 Long Term Incentive Plan (each an "LTIP Award") as follows:

Name of individual

Position / status

Type of award

Number of shares subject to LTIP Award

Gavin Peck

Chief Executive Officer

LTIP Award - nil cost option

610,044

Rosie Fordham

Chief Financial Officer

LTIP Award - nil cost option

275,768

The awards are subject to stretching and equally weighted earnings and share price performance conditions, in line with previous awards.

The awards are subject to an underpin condition in accordance with which the Remuneration Committee may adjust the formulaic vesting outturn having regard to the overall financial performance of the Group over the performance period ending FY29 and whether any value in the awards at assessment of the performance condition represents a “windfall gain”.

The awards will vest following the assessment of the performance conditions (to the extent that the conditions have been satisfied) and then be subject to a further two-year holding period.

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation, provide further detail:

1.

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Gavin Peck

2.

Reason for notification

a)

Position / status

Chief Executive Officer

b)

Initial notification / amendment

Initial notification

3.

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

a)

Name

TheWorks.co.uk plc

b)

LEI

894500W7PWBCCWBN9R03

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

Ordinary shares of £0.01 each

ISIN: GB00BF5HBF20

b)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of nil-cost options over ordinary shares under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

Nil cost award

610,044

d)

Aggregated information

Aggregated volume

Price

N/A – single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

1 October 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

1.

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Rosie Fordham

2.

Reason for notification

a)

Position / status

Chief Financial Officer

b)

Initial notification / amendment

Initial notification

3.

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

a)

Name

TheWorks.co.uk plc

b)

LEI

894500W7PWBCCWBN9R03

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

Ordinary shares of £0.01 each

ISIN: GB00BF5HBF20

b)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of nil-cost options over ordinary shares under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

Nil cost award

275,768

d)

Aggregated information

Aggregated volume

Price

N/A – single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

1 October 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

Enquiries:

TheWorks.co.uk plc

Gavin Peck, CEO

Rosie Fordham, CFO

via Hudson Sandler

Singer Capital Markets (Nomad and Broker)

Peter Steel

Sara Hale

020 7496 3000

Hudson Sandler (Financial PR)

Alex Brennan

Lucy Wollam

020 7796 4133

[email protected]

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact [email protected] or visit www.rns.com.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
 
END
 
 

TheWorks.co.uk plc on 6ix

Story so far

Earlier from TheWorks.co.uk

All TheWorks.co.uk news releases