Projects and Case Studies
Health Foundry
Solico provided strategic and operational consultancy services to Health Foundry, a health tech co-working space based in Waterloo, from 2022 until 2025.
Role and contribution: Chris French worked with Health Foundry in a senior strategic capacity, supporting partnership development, programme shaping and external engagement. This included identifying opportunities where Health Foundry members and partners could contribute to local priorities, and helping translate relationships into practical collaborations.
Partnerships and place-based work: Solico helped develop and deepen cross-sector relationships, including work with local public sector partners to explore pathways into work experience and skills activity linked to health innovation. The emphasis was on making innovation more accessible and rooted in place, rather than only serving existing founders and institutions.
Maternity health coordination: Solico also supported exploratory work around maternity equity by coordinating conversations between relevant partners. This included linking a practising midwife and Black maternity health champion with a maternity health tech organisation for initial discussions on potential collaboration, with a focus on culturally competent approaches and practical next steps.
“Solico has built a strong reputation for delivering impactful programmes and creating inclusive spaces that empower their participants and embedding diversity within the Health Foundry space.”
co:nexus
An innovative free programme supporting aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners in Lambeth.
Role: co:nexus is designed and delivered by Solico to offer a comprehensive package of support to help people start or grow their business in the Life Sciences sector.
Approach: Our winning submission was chosen based on using design thinking approaches (such as the ‘How Might We’ statement) and also post programme support, including the offer of free workspace. We designed the programme using experience from past community events and made the programme accessible by being open to all types of application and advertising in residents’ newsletters. This resulted in a majority Black female cohort for the programme.
“It was a pleasure to be invited to sit on the panel at the co:nexus business support session. It is fantastic to see the reach and impacts of this programme and I am excited to see how the participants and their businesses progress”
Neighbourhood and Wellbeing Delivery Alliance (NWDA)
Solico provides unique consultancy services as Community Connector for the NWDA — part of Lambeth Together, an integrated local care partnership.
Role: Build trust within the community and co-design community-led approaches to health inequalities in the borough.
Approach: We work closely with Lambeth’s diverse VCFSE (voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise) sector to ensure a genuine co-design and community-led approach to our initiatives.
One such initiative involved designing and coordinating physiotherapy community days, bringing secondary care physio teams into accessible places such as local authority sports halls. We invited VCFSE groups to come along to provide a wider offer of support from a wider range of providers, all the while helping reduce physiotherapy waiting lists.
