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Edge Performance VCT PLC

12 December 2013

12 December 2013

Edge Performance VCT plc (the "Company")

Results of General Meeting

The Company gives notice that at a general meeting of the Company held on 12 December 2013, the following resolutions were duly passed.

The full text of the resolutions is shown below.

SPECIAL RESOLUTION

1. Authority to allot H Shares and disapplication of pre-emption rights in respect of the New H Share Offer and subsequent allotments

THAT:

(a) in addition to any existing authorities (to the extent unused), the directors of the Company (the "Directors") be and are hereby unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot and to grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into:

(i) New H Shares with an aggregate nominal value of up to GBP2 million in connection with the New H Share Offer; and

(ii) in addition to the authority referred to in paragraph (a)(i) of this resolution, such further number of H Shares as represents 10 per cent. of the issued H Share capital immediately following the final allotment and issue of New H Shares under the New H Share Offer (in respect of the 2014/15 tax year); and

(b) in addition to any existing authority, the Directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 570 of the Act to allot equity securities (as defined in section 560 of the Act) wholly for cash, pursuant to the authority referred to in this Resolution 1 (a), as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment,

such power to expire: (1) in respect of the authority to allot up to 20 million New H Shares pursuant to the New H Share Offer on the earlier of five Business Days after the final closing date of the New H Share Offer and 31 August 2014; and (2) in respect of the general authority to allot additional H Shares on the earlier of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2014 and 31 October 2014, save that the Company may at any time prior to the expiry of such power make an offer or enter into an agreement which would or might require shares to be allotted or rights to be granted after the expiry of such power and the Directors are authorised to allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if such power had not expired.

ORDINARY RESOLUTION

   2.         New H Share Offer Agreement 

THAT, subject to and conditional upon (i) the New H Share Offer becoming unconditional in all respects (other than regards any condition relating to the passing of this Resolution 2); and (ii) the passing of Resolution 1 above, the New H Share Offer Agreement as set out in the circular of the Company dated 8 November 2013 (the "Circular") be and is hereby approved.

SPECIAL RESOLUTION

   3.         Cancellation of share premium account 

THAT, subject to the confirmation of the High Court:

(a) the share capital of the Company in issue immediately following the final date of Admission of New H Shares pursuant to the New H Share Offer be reduced by cancelling the entire amount standing to the credit of the Company's share premium account; and

(b) subject to any undertaking required by the High Court, the credit thereby arising in the Company's books of account from the cancellation of the Company's share premium account pursuant to paragraph (a) of this resolution be applied in crediting a special reserve which shall be able to be applied in any manner in which the Company's profits available for distribution are to be applied (as determined in accordance with the Act and The Companies (Reduction of Share Capital) Order 2008), including the buy-back by the Company of Shares.

ORDINARY RESOLUTION

   4.         New Investment Management Agreement 

THAT, the New Investment Management Agreement, the terms of which are set out in the Circular, be and is hereby approved.

SPECIAL RESOLUTION

   5.         Adoption of New Articles of Association 

THAT the Shareholders of the Company hereby adopt the new articles of association in the form produced to the meeting and initialled by the Chairman for the purposes of identification in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the existing articles of association of the Company.

Terms defined in the circular of the Company dated 8 November 2013 have the same meaning above, save where the context otherwise requires.

Proxy votes cast were as follows:

 
 Resolution                                       For         Against   Withheld 
-----------------------------------------------  ----------  --------  --------- 
 Special Resolution 
-----------------------------------------------  ----------  --------  --------- 
      Authorise directors to allot H shares 
 1.    for cash on a non pre-emptive basis        3,148,179         0          0 
---  ------------------------------------------  ----------  --------  --------- 
 Ordinary Resolution 
-----------------------------------------------  ----------  --------  --------- 
 2.   Approve the H share offer agreement         3,148,179         0          0 
---  ------------------------------------------  ----------  --------  --------- 
 Special Resolution 
-----------------------------------------------  ----------  --------  --------- 
      Approve the cancellation of the Company's 
 3.    share premium account                      3,148,179         0          0 
---  ------------------------------------------  ----------  --------  --------- 
 
 
 Ordinary Resolution 
----------------------------------------------  ----------  --------  -------- 
      Approve the New Investment Management 
 4.    Agreement                                 2,907,243   138,936   102,000 
---  -----------------------------------------  ----------  --------  -------- 
 Special Resolution 
----------------------------------------------  ----------  --------  -------- 
      Approve the adoption of the New Articles 
 5.    of Association                            3,117,354    30,825         0 
---  -----------------------------------------  ----------  --------  -------- 
 

For further information please contact:

Edge Investments, Investment Manager: 020 7317 1300

The City Partnership (UK) Limited, Company Secretary: 0131 243 7210.

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