Introduction to using the COBRA Business Database From Home

COBRA (Complete Online Business Reference Advisor) contains all the information you need to turn your idea into a business, as well as access current business information to help your business grow or access opportunities.

In addition, it provides 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.

In this Microsoft Teams webinar, we will explain and demonstrate how to use COBRA, as well as provide an overview to other useful online resources to access business data. The key sections of the database include:

• Business Opportunity Profiles

• Industry Snapshots

• Businesses Information Factsheets

• Sector Updates

• Sources of Business Information

There will also be plenty of time to ask questions and learn some short cuts with finding and processing information.

Accessing COBRA

In order to access COBRA, you will need to have a Bromley libraries card which you can apply for online, and be issued with a digital library number. This library card number will enable you to access COBRA. To apply for a library card please click here.

MS Team Link

An MS Team link will be sent to all registered attendees three days before the webinar. The webinar will be delivered by Loretta Awuah.

Joining the West Kent Business Support Programme

This event is delivered by the West Kent Business Support Programme, which supports businesses in West Kent to flourish. By Joining the West Kent Business Support Programme, businesses can access practical workshops, webinars, networking events, mentoring 121s, business grants, and have the opportunity to exhibit at the West Kent Expo 2026.

All businesses/aspiring entrepreneurs who have signed up to this webinar should complete this registration form if they haven't already to join the programme.

Loretta Awuah is the Strategic Business Support Manager at GLL (Greenwich Leisure Limited) otherwise known as ‘Better, ’ and heads up their start up services, which supports aspiring entrepreneurs, start ups and more established businesses to achieve their business goals. This is delivered through Start Up Bromley, Start Up Greenwich and Start Up Wandsworth, which supports a business community of over 1,400 businesses and entrepreneurs. In addition, she is supporting businesses on the West Kent Business Support Programme between now and March 2026, through overseeing programme delivery.

Passionate about supporting local businesses, she has extensive experience in designing, delivering and securing funding for business support programmes and services, in addition to supporting businesses through 121 consultations, delivering workshops/webinars and connecting them to experienced business experts in a range of fields, through her extensive network of contacts.