Our market research tools will help you to find and access funding, as well as offering up-to-date information such as sector specific guides, market reports, contacts, events and much more.

Plinth uses AI to identify funding opportunities relevant to your organisation and your project, and helps you to write great applications. Lewisham's Business and IP Centre access gives you a grant writing credit which lasts for 1 month, for an unlimited number of grant applications.
Access Plinth
Plinth can be accessed at all Lewisham's Libraries through this link. Please speak to a member of staff who will generate you a unique token that lasts 30 days.
View Plinth AI Grant Writer step-by-step guide on Youtube.
Access our step-by-step PDF guide for both the Grant Writer and Funder Finder.

Grant Finder is the leading funding database in the UK covering local, national, and international sources of funding. Thousands of funding sources are included such as charitable trusts, societies, research councils, national government, the EU and corporate sponsors.
Access Grant Finder
Grant Finder can be accessed on PCs at the hub libraries (Catford, Deptford and Lewisham) through this link. Please ask staff to log you on.

COBRA Complete Business Reference Adviser contains all the information you need to turn your idea into a business. Find more than 4,000 factsheets, market reports, contacts, and sources of funding and support plus hundreds of practical guides to starting up more than 350 types of business.
Access COBRA
COBRA can be accessed remotely or on library PCs with your Lewisham Library card number through this link.