Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights


OCTOPUS AIM VCT PLC

 24 September 2018

Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights

Octopus AIM VCT plc (the “Company”) announces the following allotments of Ordinary Shares of 1p each in the capital of the Company were issued on 24 September 2018:

  1.   5,786  Shares in relation to an offer for subscription pursuant to a prospectus issued by the Company dated 1 February 2013;
     
  2.   629 Shares in relation to a top up offer for subscription pursuant to an offer document issued by the Company and Octopus AIM VCT 2 plc dated 3 February 2014;
     
  3.   4,756  Shares in relation to a joint offer for subscription pursuant to an offer document issued by the Company and Octopus AIM VCT 2 plc dated 29 August 2014;
     
  4.   2,925 Shares in relation to a joint offer for subscription pursuant to an offer document issued by the Company and Octopus AIM VCT 2 plc dated 21 December 2015; and
     
  5.   155 Shares in relation to a top up offer for subscription pursuant to an offer document issued by the Company and Octopus AIM VCT 2 plc dated 6 February 2017
     
  6.  2,801 Shares be issued in relation to a joint offer for subscription pursuant to an offer document issued by the Company and Octopus AIM VCT 2 plc dated 16 June 2018; and,
     
  7. 9,104 Shares be issued in relation to the current offer as a result of the rebated annual management charge.

The Company announces that the Shares referred to in a. b. c. d. e. f. above were issued and allotted at a price of 125.9p per share under the terms of the relevant document. The allotments of the Ordinary Shares of 1p each in the capital of the Company were made after the close of the respective offers for subscription and relate to shares allotted as a result of reduced adviser charges in accordance with the terms and conditions of the respective offers for subscription.

The Shares referred to in g. above were issued and allotted to employees of Octopus Capital Limited at a price of 125.9p per share as a result of a rebate of part of the annual management charge by Octopus Investments Limited, the Company's investment manager.

An application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of the new shares.   Admission is expected to become effective on or around 8 October 2018.

The issued share capital and total voting rights of the Company is now: 1,118,440,485 Ordinary Shares.

For further information please contact:

Suzanna Waterhouse
Company Secretary
020 3142 4957