The Social Linking Consultancy
A collective consultancy, Solico works both with and within communities of the public, professions and place.
Founded on values
Chris French founded Solico in 2022 to provide a different approach to engaging with community, via closer collaboration and meaningful connections with a focus on health inequalities.
Run on professionalism
A former PwC project manager, Chris brings extensive experience in health consultancy and community engagement and has led various strategic health consultancy projects and programmes, including Health Foundry and Lambeth Together Local Care Partnership.
Our People
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Chris French
Managing Director and Lead Consultant
Chris is passionate about people, places and their intersections especially within the field of public health and health inequalities.
A Lambeth resident, he is the founder of an LGBTQ+ charity in the borough and has worked in health policy and strategy for 15+ years.
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Abhishek Mohanty
Specialist Consultant
Abhishek is a PhD researcher at SOAS and has a multidisciplinary background in business management, industry, entrepreneurship, and design research with a focus on health tech.
Adeptness in facilitating design thinking workshops and hackathon-style events, ensures an innovative approach to combining social anthropology in human centred thinking.
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Claire Harkin
Operations Lead
Claire is an accomplished operation professional with, her most recent role being the Operations Manager at the Health and Care Professions Council regulatory body.
After being made redundant, Claire joined Chris to provide the operational oversight to Solico’s projects.
It was a pleasure to be invited to sit on the panel at the co:nexus business support session, a programme to equip Lambeth entrepreneurs with the tools, resources and community to grow their businesses in the Life Sciences sector.
It is fantastic to see the reach and impacts of this programme [designed and delivered by Solico], funded by Lambeth Council via UK Shared Prosperity Funding and I am excited to see how the participants and their businesses progress”
- Cllr. Marcia Cameron, Cabinet Member for Economic Inclusion, Lambeth Council
Community
The heart of any successful project. We'll help you work directly with communities to discover what is needed, find the right way to deliver it and create lasting change.
Connection
Great things happen when we work together. We have the network and expertise to connect the right people — from community members and groups to statutory organisations.
Collaboration
It's all about balance. We facilitate collaboration for joint ventures and partnerships, allowing easy communication, fair prioritisation and successful delivery.
Recent Projects
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Neighbourhood and Wellbeing Delivery Alliance
Working closely with Lambeth’s diverse VCFSE (voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise) sector.
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Health Foundry
Expanding the strategic partnerships of health tech co-working space, Health Foundry, including establishing a collaborations and offering work experience placements
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co:nexus
Designed and delivered to offer a comprehensive package of support to help people start or grow their business in the Life Sciences sector.