Online business resources
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. These resources are just some of the free services you can access through Lewisham Libraries Business and IP Centre.
COBRA Complete Business Reference Adviser
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 anywhere with your library card number.
Grant 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 at Catford, Deptford or Downham Libraries - please ask staff to log you on.
Plinth
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.
*Please note that access to Plinth is paused until further notice. In the meantime, please email bipc@lewisham.gov.uk and we will email your token for access as soon as it becomes available.
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
Industry Guides
Industry Guides from the British Library's Business and IP Centre contain essential information such as market research, key companies, trade magazines, newsletters, and internet sources on a range of different industries.
Intellectual Property Guides
Intellectual Property Guides from the British Library's Business and IP Centre detail the various types of intellectual property, such as trade marks, patents, designs and copyright.
