Don is a scientist, filmmaker and helptivist exploring how people can show up for one another before crisis hits. After nearly becoming homeless due to workplace burnout - and being helped by a stranger who intervened simply because he could - Don became deeply interested in the gap between noticing someone is struggling and actually stepping in.

With $500, he will host The Intervention Gap Dinner in London, bringing together 30 burned-out NHS workers and 30 managers who want to support them but don’t know how. Employees and managers will sit alternately, with no work talk allowed during the first course. Later in the evening, guests will open envelopes containing anonymous, real stories gathered from Don’s research - moments of silent struggle and missed opportunities to help. Participants will then reflect on a simple but powerful prompt: What would need to be true for you to ask for help tomorrow? or What would need to be true for you to offer help tomorrow?

The goal isn’t to fix burnout in one night, but to create a space for witnessing and honesty across a power dynamic. Everyone will leave with a small kindness card they can give to a colleague — a low-stakes invitation to connection, not therapy or HR, just one human reaching out to another.