CIRCULAR AND NOTICE OF EGM

Edinburgh Small Companies Trust plc
20 July 2006


EDINBURGH SMALL COMPANIES TRUST PLC

CIRCULAR AND NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

20 JULY 2006

Edinburgh Small Companies Trust plc (the 'Company') has today published a
circular to the Company's shareholders in response to a requisition of an
extraordinary general meeting of the Company received on behalf of funds managed
by Laxey Partners Limited ('Laxey').

The circular convenes the extraordinary general meeting of the Company, to be
held at 2.30 p.m. on Monday 14 August 2006, at which the resolution put forward
by Laxey will be proposed and sets out the Board's proposals for the future of
the Company.

For further information, please contact:

Nathan Brown
Winterflood Investment Trusts
Tel. [phone]

A copy of the above document will be submitted shortly to the UK Listing
Authority and will be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's
Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London E14 5HS
Tel. [phone]




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