St Helen's Capital Plc, the leading PLUS (formerly Ofex) adviser, is pleased to announce  a number of new appointments, strengthening both its Board and senior management.  The  Company  is  also pleased to announce that trading conditions remain buoyant.

HIGHLIGHTS

   * Three new appointments - strengthening  the  Company's  Board  and  senior management;
   * Buoyant  trading  conditions  -  highlighted  by a recently oversubscribed fundraising and two admissions on PLUS;
   * Dealflow  remains  strong  - with the Company currently  involved  in  six fundraising transactions; and
   * St Helen's now advises 27 PLUS - Quoted companies.

APPOINTMENTS

Leo Godsall has been appointed to  the  Board of St Helen's with effect from 01 August 2006. Leo joined St Helen's in January 2006 and has been involved in the development and management of private equity  fund  raisings, public offers for subscription,  PIPE  and PLUS transactions. Leo's experience  is  in  providing advice and solutions for  corporate finance, strategic risk and operational and risk management to well established  businesses  and  smaller,  rapidly growing companies.

Leo  has  previously  worked  for  Equinox  Securities Limited, Abbey Financial Markets  and  Nash  Fitzwilliams  Limited. In addition,  he  has  run  his  own business, which focused on helping SMEs with strategic and business development and implementing operational management systems.

St Helen's is delighted to welcome  Janet  Peyton  as Compliance Officer. Janet started her City career in 1987 when she joined the  London Stock Exchange as a Regulatory  Adviser. Janet has since worked at Ofex as  Continuing  Obligations Manager and as  part of the Corporate Finance Department of J.M. Finn & Co Ltd. In addition to her role as Compliance Officer, she will be working closely with St. Helen's clients to provide advice on all continuing obligations issues.

In addition, the  Company  is  delighted  to  announce  that John Findlater has joined the St Helen's Sales Team as an Associate Director.  John qualified as a chartered accountant in 1968 and has over 35 years' experience  of research and analysis,   specialising  in  smaller  companies.  John  will  have  particular responsibility  for developing relationships with VCT's and other institutional contacts.

TRADING UPDATE

St Helen's is pleased  to  announce  that trading conditions remain buoyant and that the period since the end of June  has  been a busy one for the Company. It has recently completed a fundraising for an existing  PLUS  client - technology company ADP, raising GBP600,000 via an oversubscribed offer.

In  addition,  St.  Helen's has successfully brought two further  companies  to PLUS: media company Avisis  Plc and gaming investment company Netgames Holdings Ltd. This brings the total number  of  PLUS companies advised by St. Helen's to 27.

St. Helen's continues to benefit from strong market conditions and is currently involved  in  six  fund raising transactions  raising  between  GBP500,000  and GBP2.5m each; these  are  in  a  number  of  sectors including oil production & exploration, internet, media and medical devices.

Mark Warde-Norbury, St Helen's Chairman, said:  "WE ARE DELIGHTED THAT OUR TEAM WILL  BE GAINING SUCH A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE WITH  OUR  NEW  APPOINTMENTS.  THE COMPANY  WILL  BENEFIT  SIGNIFICANTLY  FROM THE NEW ADDITIONS, WHOSE SKILL SETS WILL HELP ST HELEN'S TO BUILD ON THE STRONG  MOMENTUM  ACHIEVED  IN GROWING ITS CLIENT BASE.  WE ARE PROUD TO BE THE LEADING PLUS ADVISER AND LOOK  FORWARD  TO FURTHER CEMENTING THIS POSITION IN THE COMING MONTHS."

    The Directors of the Issuer accept responsibility for this announcement

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ENQUIRIES:

ST HELEN'S CAPITAL PLC                                            020 7628 5582
Mark Warde-Norbury, Chairman
Barry Hocken, Chief Executive                  
www.sthelenscapital.com

BISHOPSGATE COMMUNICATIONS LTD.                                   020 7430 1600
Maxine Barnes                              
Nick Rome                                               
www.bishopsgatecommunications.com


NOTES TO EDITORS

St Helen's Capital Plc is a FSA regulated, corporate advisory firm. It is the leading PLUS adviser and specialises in advising Small and Medium sized businesses (SMEs) on pre-IPO fund raisings and PLUS Introductions, which may be accompanied by capital raising through a Private Placing and/or an Offer for Subscription of new shares.