INCOME & GROWTH VCT (THE) PLC — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2013

Dec 18, 2013

Notice of the Annual General Meeting

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an annual general meeting of The Income & Growth VCT plc (“the Company”) will be held at 11.00 am on Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at the offices of SGH Martineau LLP, One America Square, Crosswall, London EC3N 2SG for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following resolutions of which resolutions 1 to 10 will be proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 11 and 12 will be proposed as special resolutions:-

1. To receive and adopt the annual report and accounts of the Company for the year ended 30 September 2013 (“Annual Report”), including the auditor’s report thereon.
2. To approve the remuneration policy as set out in the Annual Report.
3. To approve the directors’ remuneration report as set out in the Annual Report.
4. To appoint BDO LLP of 55 Baker Street, London W1U 7EU as auditor to the Company until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company.
5. To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of BDO LLP as auditor to the Company.
6. To re-elect Colin Hook as a director of the Company.
7. To re-elect Jonathan Cartwright as a director of the Company.
8. To re-elect Helen Sinclair as a director of the Company.
9. To approve the payment of a final dividend in respect of the year ended 30 September 2013 of 4 pence per ordinary share of 1 penny each in the Company (“Share”), payable on 12 March 2014 to Shareholders on the register on 21 February 2014.
10. That, in substitution for any existing authorities, the directors of the Company be and hereby are generally and unconditionally authorised pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (“the Act”) to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot Shares of 1 penny each in the Company (“Share”) and to grant rights to subscribe for, or convert, any security into Shares (“Rights”) up to an aggregate nominal value of £159,250, provided that the authority conferred by this resolution shall expire (unless renewed, revoked or varied by the Company in general meeting) on the date falling fifteen months after the passing of this resolution or, if earlier, at the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2015 but so that this authority shall allow the Company to make before the expiry of this authority offers or agreements which would or might require Shares to be allotted or Rights to be granted after such expiry and the directors of the Company shall be entitled to allot Shares or grant Rights pursuant to any such offers or agreements as if the authority conferred by this resolution had not expired.
11. That, subject to the passing of resolution 10 set out in this notice and in substitution for any existing authorities, the directors of the Company be and hereby are empowered in accordance with sections 570 and 573 of the Act to allot or make offers or agreements to allot equity securities (as defined in section 560(1) of the Act) for cash, pursuant to the authority conferred upon them by resolution 9 set out in this notice, or by way of sale of treasury shares, as if section 561(1) of the Act did not apply to any such sale or allotment, provided that the power conferred by this resolution shall be limited to:

(i) the allotment and issue of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value representing £106,162 in connection with offer(s) for subscription;
(ii) the allotment of equity securities with an aggregate nominal value of up to, but not exceeding, 5 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company from time to time pursuant to any dividend investment scheme operated by the Company at a subscription price per share which is less than the net asset value per share; and
(iii) the allotment, otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, of equity securities with an aggregate nominal value of up to, but not exceeding, 5 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company from time to time;

in each case where the proceeds of the allotment may be used in whole or in part to purchase the Company’s Shares in the market and provided that this authority shall expire (unless renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting) on the date falling fifteen months after the passing of this resolution. or, if earlier, on the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2015, except that the Company may, before the expiry of this authority, make offers or agreements which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired.

1. That, in substitution for any existing authorities, the Company be and hereby is authorised pursuant to and accordance with section 701 of the Act to make one or more market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of its own Shares provided that:

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(i) the aggregate number of Shares which may be purchased shall not exceed 7,950,000 or, if lower, such number of Shares (rounded down to the nearest whole Share) as shall equal 14.99 per cent of the Shares in issue at the date of passing of this resolution;

(ii) the minimum price which may be paid for a Share is 1 penny (the nominal value thereof);

(iii) the maximum price which may be paid for a Share shall be the higher of (a) an amount equal to five per cent above the average of the middle market quotations for a Share in the Company taken from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the Share is contracted to be purchased and (b) the price stipulated by Article 5(1) of the Buy-Back and Stabilisation Regulation (EC2273/2003);

(iv) the authority conferred by this resolution shall by the Company in general meeting expire (unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company in general meeting) on the date falling fifteen months after the passing of this resolution or, if earlier, on the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2015; and

(v) the Company may make a contract or contracts to purchase its own shares under the authority hereby conferred prior to the expiry of such authority which will or may be executed wholly or partly after the expiry of such authority, and may make a purchase of its own Shares in pursuance of any such contract.

By order of the Board

Mobeus Equity Partners LLP
Secretary

The Income & Growth VCT plc
Registered Office
30 Haymarket
London SW1Y 4EX
16 December 2013

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Notice of the Annual General Meeting

Notes:

1. Members are entitled to appoint a proxy to exercise all or any of their rights to attend and to speak and vote on their behalf at the meeting. A shareholder may appoint more than one proxy in relation to the Annual General Meeting provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by that shareholder. A proxy need not be a Shareholder of the Company. A proxy form which may be used to make such appointment and give proxy instructions accompanies this notice. If you do not have a proxy form and believe that you should have one, or if you require additional forms, please contact Mobeus Equity Partners LLP, the Company Secretary at 30 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4EX or by email to: iandg@mobeusequity.co.uk or telephone on 020 7024 7600.

2. Shareholders may appoint a proxy either by completing the hard copy of the proxy form provided with this Annual Report or electronically at www.capitashareportal.com. To register to vote electronically via the Share Portal, you will need to enter your Investor Code which is provided on your proxy form for the meeting. The proxy form, or other instrument appointing a proxy, must be received (a) by post or (during normal business hours only) by hand at the Company's registrars, Capita Asset Services, The Registry, 34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 4TU or (b) online, via the Share Portal, in each case so as to be received not later than 11.00 am on Monday, 10 February 2014 or 48 hours before the time appointed for any adjourned meeting or, in the case of a poll taken subsequent to the date of the meeting or adjourned meeting, so as to be received no later than 24 hours before the time appointed for taking the poll.

3. The return of a completed proxy form, other such instrument or any electronic Proxy Instruction (as described in paragraph 2 above) will not prevent a shareholder attending the Annual General Meeting and voting in person if he/she wishes to do so.

4. Any person to whom this notice is sent who is a person nominated under section 146 of the Companies Act 2006 ("the Act") to enjoy information rights (a "Nominated Person") may, under an agreement between him/her and the shareholder by whom he/she was nominated, have a right to be appointed (or to have someone else appointed) as a proxy for the Annual General Meeting. If a Nominated Person has no such proxy appointment right or does not wish to exercise it, he/she may, under any such agreement, have a right to give instructions to the shareholder as to the exercise of voting rights.

5. If you have been nominated to receive general shareholder communications directly from the Company, it is important to remember that your main contact in terms of your investment remains as it was (ie the registered shareholder, or perhaps custodian or broker, who administers the investment on your behalf). Therefore any changes or queries relating to your personal details and holding (including any administration thereof) must continue to be directed to your existing contact at your financial advisor or custodian. The Company cannot guarantee dealing with matters that are directed to it in error. The only exception to this is where the Company, in exercising one of its powers under the Act, writes to you directly for a response.

6. The statement of the rights of shareholders in relation to the appointment of proxies in paragraphs 1 and 2 above does not apply to Nominated Persons. The rights described in these paragraphs can only be exercised by Shareholders of the Company.

7. Pursuant to Regulation 41 of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001, entitlement to attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting (and the number of votes that may be cast thereat) will be determined by reference to the Register of Members of the Company at the close of business on the day which is two days before the day of the meeting or of the adjourned meeting. Changes to the Register of Members after the relevant deadline shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend and vote at the meeting.

8. Any corporation which is a member can appoint one or more corporate representatives who may exercise on its behalf all of its powers as a member provided that they do not do so in relation to the same shares.

9. Any member attending the meeting has the right to ask questions relating to the business being dealt with at the meeting and the Company is obliged to answer such questions under section 319A of the Act. However, no such answer need be given if (a) to do so would interfere unduly with the preparation for the meeting or involve the disclosure of confidential information, (b) the answer has already been given on the Company's website www.incorneandgrowthvct.co.uk in the form of an answer to a question, or (c) it is undesirable in the interests of the Company or the good order of the meeting that the question be answered.

10. Under section 527 of the Act (i) Members representing at least 5% of the total voting rights of all the Members or (ii) at least 100 members who have a relevant right to vote and hold shares in the company on which there has been paid up an average sum, per member, of at least £100 (in accordance with section 525 of the Act) can require the Company to publish a statement on its website setting out any matter relating to (a) the audit of the Company's accounts (including the Auditor's Report and the conduct of the audit) that are to be laid before the meeting; or (b) any circumstances connected with an auditor of the Company ceasing to hold office since the previous meeting at which annual accounts and reports were laid in accordance with section 437 of the Act, that the Members propose to raise at the meeting. The Company cannot require the Members requesting the publication to pay its expenses in complying with sections 527 or 528 of the Act. Any statement required to be placed on the Company's website must also be sent to the Company's auditors no later than the time it makes its statement available on the website. The business which may be dealt with at the Meeting includes any statement that the Company has been required to publish on its website under section 527.

By attending the meeting, Members and their proxies and representatives are understood by the Company to have agreed to receive any communications relating to the shares of the Company made at the Meeting.

1. As at 16 December 2013 (being the last business day prior to the publication of this Notice) the Company's issued share capital consisted of 53,088,219 ordinary shares of 1 penny each, all of which carry one vote each. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at 16 December 2013 were 53,088,219.

2. The Register of Directors' Interests and Directors' appointment letters shall be available for inspection at the Company's registered office during normal business hours on any weekday (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) and at the place of the meeting for at least fifteen minutes prior to and during the meeting. The Directors do not have any service contracts with the Company.

3. A copy of this notice, and other information required by section 311A of the Act, can be found on the Company's website at www.incorneandgrowthvct.co.uk.

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