HelpBnk

You probably don’t know this yet… But over the last 365 days, over 2000 founders pitched to a literal doorbell. Some of those pitches were reacted to by @richardbranson , @danmartell and @simonsinek . Those who were courageous enough to stand there were featured in videos that were watched by millions. But what if we could do it better? What if… There was a way to help EVERY SINGLE PERSON who pitches? It took us months of development, but now there is. The Doorbell of Dreams is back. With new locations added globally each month. With advanced technology and a substantial value stack behind every pitch: Every pitcher now gets a personalised deck in their inbox with the steps to make that dream a reality. Every month, one pitcher will walk away with £1,000 (chosen live on Instagram). They get access to the HelpBnk community and IRL support from people on the same journey. A live session with the HelpBnk team (and sometimes @simonsquibb himself.) Even a chance at a reaction video, a content feature, or a 1-1 with an experienced founder. We listened to your feedback. So we’ve rebuilt the entire thing. These 60 seconds now have the capability to change your life. So come and pitch your dream. #helpbnk #entrepreneur

Could you have done what he did? 😳 #helpbnk #entrepreneur

He made a COMEBACK! 😳 Thanks to @leevalleyathleticscentre for allowing us to use their venue! Thanks also to @roeisam for what he does best by connecting Blake to these athletes! #helpbnk #entrepreneur

“From age 9 until I was 26, I never had a single free summer. Every year was exams, retakes, pressure, and the constant message that I wasn't good enough. I didn't understand why until 2023, when I collapsed completely and a therapist finally confirmed I have ADHD. Suddenly my entire childhood made sense. The system was built around memorisation and long attention spans, and those were exactly the two things my brain couldn't do. That same year we'd just bought our first home, and it had serious hidden problems. For eight months, on top of my full-time job, I renovated it myself. My father had to come and help because I was overwhelmed. My hair started falling out from the stress. Then I was made redundant. At my lowest point I told Patricia: 'I give myself five years to change my life, or I'll lose myself completely.' That sentence didn't come from drama. It came from exhaustion. Patricia has wanted to be a teacher since she was five years old. She used to line up her soft toys and teach them. In Spain, nobody gave her a chance for seven years. She worked in school canteens. So in 2019 I left my stable job and we moved to London, because I knew that if someone gave her one opportunity, her ability would speak for itself. She was hired by the first nursery she applied to, an OFSTED Outstanding nursery, and within months she was identifying things others had missed entirely. One child was struggling with reading and everyone assumed learning difficulties. Patricia watched him and thought it was his vision. The parents got him tested, he was prescribed glasses, and his performance improved immediately. We've been together almost 18 years. We've never owned a car. We spent three years in a 33m² flat through COVID, saving everything we could. We still haven't been able to start a family, and that waiting has been Patricia's deepest pain. This August we're opening a nursery from our home. The same house I renovated with my bare hands while my health was falling apar

Community is one of the most powerful things you can build around a dream. Yesterday at HelpBnk, the best pitch won a mentorship with Simon Squibb. We've re-launched the doorbell of dreams in Dubai and you can now find it outside of Pepperoni Comedy Club! The doorbell is simple. You ring it, you share your dream, and the community shows up to help. We hosted a Pitch Clinic hosted by Adam Moss and Guy Parsonage (CEO & Head of Growth at HelpBnk). Learn how to pitch effectively, hear expert feedback, and even step up to share your idea live. The best pitch won a mentorship with Simon Squibb. Pitching actually matters more than most people realise. A study at Dominican University found that people who wrote down their goals and shared them out loud were 42% more likely to actually achieve them. Pitching does three things at once. It forces clarity. If you can't explain your dream in 60 seconds, you don't understand it yet. It creates commitment. Once you've said it in a room full of strangers, walking away from it feels different. It opens doors. Half the people in that room know someone, have done something, or can introduce you to the person who'll help. That's what the doorbell is really for. A simple action that turns a private dream into a public commitment, in front of a community that actually wants you to win. We can't wait to see your pitch! Who knows what happens by spreading the word?

Guess who’s been giving us a shoutout on @virginradiodxb today? 👀 Listen to @krisfade spreading the word about our mission at helpbnk 🦾 Who’s gonna join us tonight? 💙 #helpbnk #entrepreneur

“I didn't have a pain point that launched my game dev career. I had more of a wonder point. I was 8 when I played a few computer games with my brother, and my imagination immediately went to the endless possibilities that come with world creation. So I opened Scratch and started building. My first game had the player dodging fireballs launched from the mouth of a dragon, and you played as a ninja who mostly had to rely on reaction speed to survive. I didn't know any game development principles and I certainly didn't have any art skills, but I made that game and then I made everyone in my family play it. It remains one of the highlights of my childhood. That same year I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The hardest part was that I didn't know what it was, but I could see that it worried the people around me. There's no cure, so it's still with me now, just an unfortunate routine at this point. The games never stopped, though. Many thousands of hours across projects that tried and failed, each one teaching me something. I ran a game development summer camp for five years, moved to San Francisco to get closer to where the technology was heading, and kept building. My current game is called Bravely Doomed, a fantasy RPG deck-builder you can play right in your browser with no download, no subscription. I started it four months ago and it's live right now, with around 20 users giving me feedback every week. I want to make a world people genuinely love spending time in. I know that's a long way off. But I've been ready for that since I was 8." @philsindiegames

Across the UAE and Saudi Arabia, entrepreneurship is exploding. The UAE has been ranked #1 in the world for entrepreneurship four years running. Riyadh has climbed 60 places in the global startup rankings in just three years. Take Tabby. A Saudi founder started it in Dubai in 2019. Today it has 15 million users, processes over $10 billion a year, and moved its HQ to Riyadh. It's now Saudi Arabia's first fintech unicorn, valued at $3.3 billion. That's how fast things move here. And it usually starts with one conversation. That's why we're bringing the Doorbell of Dreams to where the ambition already lives. May 14th – Pitch Clinic at Pepperoni's Comedy Club, Dubai. Live feedback from HelpBnk CEO Adam Moss and Head of Growth Guy Parsonage. Step up to the Doorbell and pitch your idea in person. May 20th – HelpBnk launches in Saudi Arabia at Misk City, Riyadh. 6:00–8:00 PM. Official unveiling of the Doorbell of Dreams. Pitch live, meet entrepreneurs and creators from across the Kingdom, and hear from the HelpBnk leadership team and our partner SEA Ventures. Best pitch of the night wins a mentorship session with Simon Squibb. Best pitch of the month wins SAR 5,000. Limited spots. May 22nd – 5Iron Golf at The Westin Dubai. Coffee, breakfast, golf, and the kind of conversations that turn into businesses. Keep an eye on helpbnk.com for details. Comment "HelpBnk" and we'll share more details with you! #helpbnk #KSA #UAE #entrepreneur

“I grew up in a small town in Kansas where there were very clear rules about who you were allowed to be. I was gay, and everything around me told me I was wrong. At 18, I joined the U.S. Navy to escape. I served 3.5 years, deployed on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, and believed I had finally earned a place to belong. Then, just months before completing my contract, I was discharged for being gay. I was homeless. I showered in restaurant bathrooms until I could get a job and rebuild. Three years later I had my first condo, my first car, a great job. I felt like I had finally climbed back. Then a skiing accident shattered my left shoulder, and I couldn't work for nearly a year. I lost the job, the home, the car, and the medical bills pushed me into bankruptcy. Again, everything was gone. What hurt most wasn't the physical pain. It was sitting alone, realising I had done everything right and still ended up with nothing. There was no language for what I was experiencing. No framework. Just silence and the expectation that I should somehow be resilient and move on. Years later, in my Master's programme, I was being taught the classic organisational change models, and something in me just couldn't accept them. Every model assumed that if change was communicated properly, people would eventually accept it. My life told me that wasn't true. I raised my hand and asked the professors: 'Can you accept change?' Yes. 'Can you reject change?' Yes. 'Then why do none of your models allow for that?' The room went completely silent. Then I asked: 'Where is the model that teaches me how to manage change when it's about me?' They said it didn't exist. Then they told me to make it my Master's assignment. For over 100 years, we've called it change resistance, as if people automatically reject change. But how can we assume people reject something they've never been taught how to manage? People aren't resistant. They're untrained.” @scaredsowhat

This week, we’ll do something new. And it’s not another conference… 👀 We partnered with @samhamlin to attend @ftfounders_ 💪 So this week… Come find the Wheel of Dreams at The Founders Playground! On 14th May 2026, the HelpBnk team will be at Bristol & Bath Science Park for one of the South West’s biggest gatherings of founders, creators and innovators. The Founders Playground brings together 1,500+ founders, entrepreneurs, creatives and investors in an interactive, no-pressure environment where ideas can be tested, challenged and brought to life. Here’s what to expect: 🎯 Pitch to the Wheel of Dreams - a unique chance to share your idea and get real feedback 💼 Pitch to Bristol’s Angel & VC Network - connect directly with investors looking for new opportunities 🤝 Meet the HelpBnk team - come and speak to us in person ⚡ A fast-paced, playful environment - focused on action, outcomes and helping ideas move forward If you have an idea, a dream, or a business you want to build, come and find us. Event details: 📅 Date: 14th May 2026 ⏰ Time: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM 📍 Location: Bristol & Bath Science Park Comment “HelpBnk” and we’ll send you the link to get your ticket.

"I don't have time" is the most polite lie we tell ourselves. The truth is harder, because we have time. We just spent it on something else. Two hours scrolling or an evening watching a series we won't remember in a month. A weekend lost to other people's priorities. None of it because we're lazy. But the thing that actually matters felt too big, too risky, or too uncertain to start. So we hide behind being busy, because busy is safer than scared. Look at anyone who built something real. They didn't find more hours in the day. They have the same 24 you do. What they did was protect a small chunk of those hours and aim them at the one thing that mattered. Sara Blakely built the first Spanx prototype after work, in evenings she could have given to anything else. James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes around the edges of his life before one of them worked. Most founders we talk to didn't quit their job and go all-in on day one. They got up earlier. Stayed up later. Carved out 45 minutes nobody else was using. Behavioural research backs this up. When people are asked to track how they spend their week, almost everyone is surprised by how much "lost time" they find. The hours were always there. Frankly, most of the time we don't have a time problem. It is a priority problem dressed up as a time problem. Your dream is the most important part of you. It deserves more than the leftovers of your week. HelpBnk exists to help you take it seriously, free from the pressure to figure it all out alone. Invest 60min in one of your projects today. #helpbnk #entrepreneur

“In 2020 I had a quintuple heart bypass, and the hospitals shut down the day after I was discharged because of Covid. That kind of timing does something to you. My children were very young. And lying there, I kept thinking about time, about what I was actually spending it on, and whether any of it would matter. I'd spent my career in creativity and intellectual property, the world of ownership and royalties and rights. And somewhere in that work, a contradiction had been building that I couldn't ignore anymore. Animals inspire characters. Landscapes become logos, stories, entire brand identities. Corporations earn royalties from nature's imagery indefinitely, and the ecosystems behind all of it are collapsing, while conservation scrapes by on donations. The moment it really clicked was realising this wasn't an environmental problem, it was a structural one. We have mechanisms for people and corporations to earn ongoing income from creative work. We have nothing like that for the natural world, which is the original source of so much of it. So I built IPnature, a way to collect royalties on behalf of nature and distribute them to conservation globally. The first crowdfunding attempt didn't succeed. I've traded financial security for prolonged uncertainty, and I carry that alongside family life every day. But after nearly dying, I couldn't go back to work that was just chasing short-term outcomes. That painful moment didn't change what I wanted to do. It changed how seriously I was willing to commit to it." @ipnature_worldwide