Campaigns

Residents and a child carrying a young tree across Waterloo Bridge

Make earned settlement fair for everyone

Calling on the Prime Minister and Home Secretary to make sure any changes to settlement are fair, clear and proportionate. Add your name.

Cllr Ibrahim Dogus at 10 Downing Street

Labour councillors: send a message on settlement reform

A letter from Labour councillors to the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary. Add your name, then review the message before it is sent.

Cllr Ibrahim Dogus with Metropolitan Police officers during the Stop the Noise campaign

Stop the Noise

Targeted police operations, patrols, CCTV and motorcycle seizures have brought quieter nights. We still need a permanent solution, including better signage, a potential Public Spaces Protection Order and sustained enforcement.

Cllr Ibrahim Dogus with residents and local young people on the South Bank

Recent progress

Safer streets and stronger enforcement

Working with residents, Lambeth Council, the Metropolitan Police and City Hall to tackle antisocial behaviour and keep public spaces usable for everyone.

Emma Cons Gardens on The Cut, one of the public spaces in the ward

Seeking support

Better public spaces in Waterloo & South Bank

Protecting pavements, gardens and shared spaces from dumped rental bikes, fly-tipping and neglect, and backing the markets and high streets people rely on.

Cllr Ibrahim Dogus at Lower Marsh Market in Waterloo

Support for independent businesses and high streets

Backing the shops, cafés and restaurants that keep our high streets alive, through SME4Labour and Labour Home.

Westminster Kitchen on Belvedere Road, where the coffee morning is held

15 November 2026

Ibrahim’s next coffee morning

Sunday 15 November, 9.00am–11.00am, Westminster Kitchen. Click to register →

For more information about my work at SME4Labour, click here to visit the website.

For more information about my work at Labour Home, click here to visit the website.

International campaigns

Children waiting for food in Sudan, August 2023

Sudan’s forgotten war

Published on Labour Home.

For more information about my work at CEFTUS, click here to visit the website.

For more information about my work at the Centre for Kurdish Progress, click here to visit the website.

Ibrahim Dogus at the With Love cafe in Waterloo

With Love

A café in Waterloo for three and a half years, set up to support people. One of the campaigns we had to stop during the Covid period.

Cllr Ibrahim Dogus with Lambeth Life, the community newspaper

Lambeth Life

A community newspaper we published for four years. A gift to local people. One of the campaigns we had to stop during the Covid period.

Meals for NHS workers

Meals for the NHS

Hot meals for NHS staff during Covid. This is not a current campaign. One of the campaigns we had to stop during the Covid period.

Cllr Ibrahim Dogus serving food at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge

Christmas community meals

Food parcels for people sleeping rough. One of the campaigns we had to stop during the Covid period.

Cllr Ibrahim Dogus with the vans used to take Christmas meals out

Free meals at Christmas

Free hot meals in Christmas week. One of the campaigns we had to stop during the Covid period.

The blue flame of a gas hob

The energy price crisis

What the gas-price shock did to households and small restaurants.

Petition to stop the Rwanda deportation policy

Stop the Rwanda policy

A petition against sending people seeking asylum to Rwanda.

Petition to support small businesses and scrap business rates

Support small businesses

A petition to scrap business rates and back the high street.

Cllr Ibrahim Dogus outside Troia during the Covid crisis

Small businesses in the Covid crisis

What small firms did for their neighbours.