CAMPAIGNERS are stepping up their bid for fairer funding for their children’s schools by writing a letter a day to Education Secretary Justine Greening for the next five months.

Parents, teachers and children with the Brighton and Hove Save Our Schools campaign will send a daily reminder to the minister until November’s budget in a bid to prevent projected cuts to city schools of £14 million by 2020.

The letters are the latest stage of the SOS campaign which has seen huge banners put up outside schools warning of £200,000 of cuts to each school and a mass school assembly in two city parks.

Save Our Schools campaigner Nupur Verma said she hoped the heartfelt letters from those most affected by these cuts, written at last month’s assembly protest at The Level and Victoria Park, would toughen Ms Greening’s resolve to argue for “proper funding” for schools.

Organisers of the SOS campaign said they had seen “a groundswell of support” since the General Election with anger over school funding cuts proving a big issue during the campaign with Conservative MPs coming under fire from parents on the doorstep.

A recent Survation poll revealed about one in five people said they changed their mind on who to vote for during the election campaign with one in ten of those doing so because of school funding.

This equates to around 750,000 voters having their minds changed because of the issue.

SOS campaigners have vowed to keep up the pressure on the Government over the coming months with several other steps in the planning.

The 150 daily letters will represent the concerns of 40 schools in Brighton and Hove.

Brighton and Hove SOS has more than 2,800 supporters on its Facebook group and is still recruiting to have at least one parent rep in every school across Brighton and Hove.

Campaigner Nupur Verma said: “The Times Education Supplement reports that Justine Greening argued for maintaining real-terms levels of funding per pupil but was over-ruled by colleagues.

“We hope that our heart-felt letters from those most affected by these cuts will help strengthen her case to argue for proper funding for schools.

“We expect to see the £3 billion worth of cuts reversed and levels of spending per pupil protected.”

To get involved in the campaign, parents are being encouraged to visit facebook.com/SaveOurSchoolsUK or follow the group on Twitter @saveschoolsuk.