A girl guide helped deliver a special message to Labour party leader Ed Miliband and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Niamh Griffin, 15, of Grange Park, was part of a group of girls from across the country who formed the action/2015 campaign, calling on MPs to address issues of girls’ rights, education and inequality in the UK and across the world.

A member of the first Grange Park Rangers group, she was selected for the campaign through her role on Girlguiding’s youth advocate panel – a group which discusses issues facing girls and young women.

She said: “Really important decisions on poverty, inequality and climate change are being made at summits later this year. We need politicians to make girls’ rights and education a priority. It’s so important that politicians are ambitious about these things, and that they listen to young people’s voices.

“It was really inspiring to meet the other young activists and to see the brilliant positive impacts that they’re having in their communities, and I think that what I will take away most is how important it is that politicians listen to the voices of young people, something that I think is beginning to happen more and more, particularly through campaigns such as Girlguiding’s Girls Matter and Action/2015.”

They presented their case to the two leaders on Thursday, January 15.