Singer-songwriter Kate Nash has launched a series of 'after-school music clubs for British schoolgirls to try and entice them to write songs.

The 'Rock and Roll After-School Music Club' will see Nash visit her own school, Avonbourne Girls School in Bournemouth, on Wednesday March 23 with the aim of setting up a permanent songwriting club.

Currently only 14% of the 75,000 members of the PRS (Performing Rights Society) are female songwriters.

Nash said: "A lot of women in pop aren't writing their own songs and there is this preconception that women are meant mainly as performers.

"A lot of people still ask me whether I write my own material, as if women are not capable of doing it. That is damaging to people's reputation."

Nash's debut album 'Made of Bricks' was released in 2007 and went platinum, winning her the Brit Award for best female solo artist. Last year she released her second album, 'My Best Friend is You'. Single 'Do-Wah-Doo' reached number 15 in the charts.

Watch Kate Nash perform 'Do-Wah-Doo' on 'Later Live ... with Jools Holland' below: