Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights

 OCTOPUS AIM VCT PLC (the 'Company')

7 January 2011

Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights

Octopus  AIM VCT plc announces that 1,707,082 Ordinary Shares of £0.01 each were
issued and allotted to 73 subscribers at a price of 100 pence per share for cash
by  a Board Resolution passed on 7 January 2011. These shares have been allotted
in connection with the offer for subscription announced by the Company on 9 July
2010.

Application  has been made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of the new
shares. Admission is expected to become effective on or around 12 January 2011.

The issued share capital and total voting rights of the Company is now
40,398,487 Ordinary Shares.

For further information please contact:

Celia Whitten
Company Secretary
020 7710 2849






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