Directorate change

Blue Planet Financials Growth & Income Investment Trust Nos 1-10 plc (together, the "Company")

Directorate change - Listing Rule 9.6

The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Glenn Cooper as Non-Executive Director on 5th October 2009
following the resignation of Dr Michael Shea from the Board on 4th August 2009 on the grounds of health.

Glenn Cooper has been a non-executive director of a number of listed companies both in the UK and the USA.  He has had a
long corporate finance career, starting in the City of London with Grieveson Grant (now Dresdner Kleinwort), then with
Hoare & Co, Oppenheimer & Co and E.F.Hutton.  Until 1993 he was a deputy Chairman and Head of Corporate Finance of Henry
Ansbacher & Co, a medium size merchant bank quoted on The London Stock Exchange, transacting between 25 and 30 public
company transactions per anum.  He then joined Apax Partners Corporate Finance (now known as Altium Capital), where he
was appointed Managing Director leading complex debt restructuring transactions.  He has led and supervised a large
number of transactions mostly in the UK but including USA, Continental Europe and Australia both in public and private
companies.  These transactions have included both hostile and recommended offers, conventional mergers, rights issues
and other fundraisings, reconstructions, recapitalisations and floatations both on AIM and the main list.  He is perhaps
best known for leading the team which floated Manchester United football club.

He is currently a non-executive director of:

MID-STATES PLC


No further information is required to be disclosed pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13R.


ENDS


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