THE Evesham mum spearheading a campaign to win more funding for Worcestershire's schools could be heading for a face-to-face meeting with a Government education minister in London.

Helen Donovan, who has been spurred into action by what she sees as an unfair level of funding for education in the county, is contacting schools throughout Worcestershire to enlist support from similarly disenchanted parents.

Her initiative has won the backing of Vale MP Peter Luff, who received 80 responses collected by Mrs Donovan from parents of children at Evesham's St Mary's Catholic Primary School, where she has two daughters.

The MP intends to pass them on to schools minister David Miliband but has also offered to try and arrange a meeting at Westminster with the minister, which Mrs Donovan, of St Margaret's Road, would attend.

"He has asked me to come down to London to see David Miliband," she said, adding that Mr Luff also intended to put her in touch with head teachers' associations to help build up her campaign's momentum.

Mrs Donovan has received correspondence supporting her views from other Worcestershire towns such as Droitwich and Bromsgrove. "There are a lot of angry parents," she said.

The county is near the bottom of the league table for spending per head on school pupils, lying 33rd out of 34 counties.