Witan Inv Tst PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

WITAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

24 May 2012

Market Purchase by the Company of its own Ordinary Shares

Witan Investment Trust plc hereby gives notification that, pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 1 May 2012 to make market purchases of the Company's own shares, a market purchase of 12,500 ordinary shares of 25p each of the Company was made today at a price of 437.7 pence per share.

Following the purchase and cancellation of the above shares, 191,520,500 ordinary shares of 25p each will remain in issue.

The capital of the Company with full voting rights is now the above number of ordinary shares of 25p each. On a poll, ordinary shareholders have one vote for every £1 in nominal value (ie four ordinary shares are required for one vote). Therefore, the total number of voting rights is 47,880,125 (ie one vote for every four shares in issue) and this figure may be used as the denominator for calculations of interests in the Company's voting rights.

-ENDS-

For further information please contact:

Andrew Bell

Chief Executive Officer

Witan Investment Trust plc

Tel: 020 7227 9770

or

James Frost

Marketing Director

Witan Investment Trust plc

Tel: 020 7227 9770