Transaction in Own Shares and Total Voting Rights

Octopus AIM VCT plc ("Company")

25 March 2011

Purchase of own securities and total voting rights

Octopus AIM VCT plc announces that on 24 March 2011 the Company purchased for
cancellation 53,189 Ordinary shares at a price of 81.75p per share.

Following this transaction, the issued share capital of the Company is now
43,062,481 Ordinary shares with a nominal value of 1p each, with voting rights.
The Company holds no shares in Treasury.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Celia Whitten,
Company Secretary
Tel:  020 7710 2849






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