Projects and Case Studies
Health Foundry
Solico provides strategic and operational consultancy services to Health Foundry, a health tech co-working space based in Waterloo.
Role: Chris French, Lead Consultant at Solico, is the Director of Strategy for the space.
Approach: In this role, Chris has widely expanded the strategic partnerships of Health Foundry, including establishing a collaboration with the local Department of Work and Pensions to offer work experience placements in Health Foundry.
Bringing together the power of community with the power of health tech, Solico helped to establish a Black and Brown maternal health group. It counts residents who are designing culturally appropriate community based digital responses, and female health tech founders who are using data and analytics. Together all are working to reduce the disparities in maternal deaths in this community.
“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.
