For the past three year I have volunteered with the Young Women's Trust. I'm the first to say that I fell into volunteering and really didn't know what to expect. After facing multiple accounts of discrimination for being a young parent from all avenues such as work and university, I wanted an outlet where I could speak about my experiences and try and challenge the stereotype that young parents face.

Through my time with the Young Women's Trust I realised that there were more problems that young women faced beyond being a parent. With everything from the gender pay gap, to job discrimination, to apprentices being paid an unfair wage. I wanted to talk about these issues and put myself forward for every and any opportunity that I had experience of and I could talk about. But I honestly didn't think that anyone would listen. For I was a young mum that had been shunned by some of the places that were supposed to support her. Why would the public and MP's listen to what I had to say.