Circ re. Notice of General Meeting

Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trusts No 1-10 plc (ticker: BPFU) Registered Numbers: 162796 - 162805 22nd August 2011 NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a GENERAL MEETING of the Companies will be held on the 6th September 2011 at the registered Office at Greenside Place, 25 Greenside House Edinburgh EH1 3AA at the stated times:- Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 1 plc (Registered Number 162796) at 12.00pm. Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 2 plc (Registered No. 162797) at 12.05pm or as soon thereafter as the General Meeting of Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 1 plc convened at the same place and on the same date shall have been concluded or adjourned. Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 3 plc (Registered No. 162798) at 12.10pm or as soon thereafter as the General Meeting of Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 2 plc convened at the same place and on the same date shall have been concluded or adjourned. Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 4 plc (Registered No. 162799) at 12.15pm or as soon thereafter as the General Meeting of Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 3 plc convened at the same place and on the same date shall have been concluded or adjourned. Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 5 plc (Registered No. 162800) at 12.20pm or as soon thereafter as the General Meeting of Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 4 plc convened at the same place and on the same date shall have been concluded or adjourned. Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 6 plc (Registered No. 162801) at 12.25pm or as soon thereafter as the General Meeting of Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 5 plc convened at the same place and on the same date shall have been concluded or adjourned. Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 7 plc (Registered No. 162802) at 12.30pm or as soon thereafter as the General Meeting of Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 6 plc convened at the same place and on the same date shall have been concluded or adjourned. Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 8 plc (Registered No. 162803) at 12.35pm or as soon thereafter as the General Meeting of Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 7 plc convened at the same place and on the same date shall have been concluded or adjourned. Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 9 plc (Registered No. 162804) at 12.40pm or as soon thereafter as the General Meeting of Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 8 plc convened at the same place and on the same date shall have been concluded or adjourned. Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 10 plc (Registered No. 162805) at 12.45pm or as soon thereafter as the General Meeting of Blue Planet Financials Growth and Income Investment Trust No 9 plc convened at the same place and on the same date shall have been concluded or adjourned. The meetings are being held for the following purposes in respect of each of the Companies. To consider, and if thought fit, to reject Resolution 1 which will be proposed as a Special Resolution; To consider, and if thought fit, pass Resolutions 2 and 3 which will be proposed as Ordinary Resolutions. Special Business 1. THAT in accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, the members vote on a winding up resolution. Ordinary Business 2. TO extend the Trust's scope of investment, as permitted by the Articles of the Company, in order to allow it to invest in all securities (as defined by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000), derivatives, land and other assets. These may be located anywhere in the world. 3. IF resolution 2 is passed, that the name of the Company's will be changed to "Blue Planet Global Opportunities Investment Trusts No 1-10 plc". A copy of this Notice, Proxy Card and Letter of Direction will be posted to shareholders. Copies of these documents have been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do shortly. By order of the Board. For further information, please contact: Blue Planet Investment Advisers Ltd, Company Secretary +44 (0)131 466 6666 or info@bpia.eu Notes: 1. In accordance with Regulation 41 of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001, only those shareholders entered in the register of members of the Company as at 6:00pm on 2 September 2011 or, if the meeting is adjourned, in the register of members at 6:00pm pm on the second day prior to the day of any adjourned meeting, shall be entitled to attend or vote at the meeting in respect of the number of shares registered in their name at that time. Changes to entries in the register of members after 6: 00pm on 2 September 2011 or, if the meeting is adjourned, in the register of members after 6:00pm on the second day prior to the day of the adjourned meeting, shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend, speak or vote at the meeting or at any such adjournment 2. A member entitled to attend and vote at a meeting convened by the foregoing Notice is entitled to appoint a proxy (who need not be a member of the Company) to attend, speak and vote instead of him/her. A member may appoint more than one proxy provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share held by him\her. If no name is entered, the return of the proxy form duly signed will authorise The Chairman of the Meeting to act as your proxy. In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made by means of CREST to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a "CREST Proxy Instruction") must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited's specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual. The message must be transmitted so as to be received by the Company's agent, Capita Registrars Limited (CREST Participant ID: RA10), no later than 48 hours before the time appointed for the meeting. For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the timestamp applied to the message by the CREST Applications Host) the issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message. After this time any change of instructions to a proxy appointed through CREST should be communicated to the proxy by other means. In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made by means of CREST to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a "CREST Proxy Instruction") must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited's specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual. The message must be transmitted so as to be received by the Company's agent, Capita Registrars Limited (CREST Participant ID: RA10), no later than 48 hours before the time appointed for the meeting. CREST Personal Members or other CREST sponsored members, and those CREST Members who have appointed voting service provider(s) should contact their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) for assistance with appointing proxies via CREST. For further information on CREST procedures, limitations and system timings please refer to the CREST Manual. We may treat as invalid a proxy appointment sent by CREST in the circumstances set out in Regulation 35 (5) (a) of the Uncertified Securities Regulations 2001. In any case your proxy form must be received by the company's registrars no later than 48 hours before the time appointed for the meeting. 3. A Form of Proxy for use at the above Meeting and the letter of power of attorney (if any) or other authority under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of such power or a copy certified in accordance with the Powers of Attorney Act 1971 or in some other manner approved by the Directors should be deposited at the office of the Company's registrar, Capita Registrars, The Registry, 34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 4BR, or by envelope addressed to Freepost RSBH-UXKS-LRBC, PXS, 34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, BR3 4TU, to arrive not less than 48 hours before the time of the Meeting ( disregarding any part of a day that is not a working day). 4. Completion of a Form of Proxy will not prevent shareholders from attending a Meeting and voting in person should they so wish. 5. If two or more persons are jointly entitled to a share conferring the right to vote, any one of them may vote at the Meeting either in person or by proxy, but if more than one joint holder is present at the Meeting either in person or by proxy, the one whose name stands first in the register of members in respect of the joint holding shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof. In any event, the names of all joint holders should be stated on the form of proxy. 6. If this form is returned without any indication as to how the person(s) appointed shall vote on the resolutions, such person(s) will exercise his/her/ their discretion as to how to vote or whether to abstain from voting. 7. Information regarding this notice of General Meeting including the total voting rights of members can be found on the Blue Planet website www.blueplanet.eu
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