Transaction in Own Shares

Proven VCT PLC
02 August 2005

ProVen VCT plc
2 August 2005

ProVen VCT plc announces that on 2 August 2005  the Company purchased 27,079
ordinary shares of 5p each for cancellation representing 0.11% of the issued
share capital at a price of 96.0p per share.

Following this transaction, the Company now has 24,530,115 shares in issue.


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