Directorate Change

Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trusts No 1-10 plc
 Company Numbers: SC162796 - SC162805

6 September 2011

DIRECTORSHIP CHANGE - APPOINTMENT

The Board of Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trusts No 1-10
plc ("the Company") is pleased to announce effective today, the appointment of
the Rt Hon Lord Steel of Aikwood as a non-executive Director

The Rt Hon Lord Steel of Aikwood, aged 73, was a Member of the Scottish
Parliament and held the office of Presiding Officer (retiring in June 2003). He
was a Member of Parliament from 1965 to 1997 and on his retiral was created a
life peer. David Steel was leader of the Liberal Party from 1976 to 1988 and
co-founded the Liberal Democrats with Roy Jenkins. A former British
parliamentary delegate to the Council of Europe, in the 1989 European
Parliamentary elections he was the first national of one country to stand in
another member state, in the Central Region of Italy. He was President of
Liberal International from 1994-96. He holds honorary doctorates from ten
universities including his alma mater, the University of Edinburgh, was created
a Privy Counsellor in 1977, knighted in 1990, awarded the Commander's Cross of
the Order of Merit (Germany) in 1992, made a Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur of
France and a Knight of the Thistle in 2004. He serves as a non-executive
Director on boards of other companies including General Mediterranean Holding
S.A which is listed in Luxembourg and is a former Director of Blue Planet
International Financials Investment Trust plc.

No further information is required to be disclosed in respect of Rt Hon Lord
Steel of Aikwood pursuant to LR 9. 6.13R (1) to (6).

This announcement has been issued by the Secretary of the Company, Blue Planet
Investment Advisers Ltd. The Secretary can be contact at:

Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]