County Grants

Please note, the County capital grant program has been suspended for 2025. No new capital grant requests will be entertained in the 2025 Budget.
Under the Municipal Act, 2001, County Council has the authority and ability to make grants to community organizations as it so desires.

Eligibility

Lambton County Council has developed specific criteria that all grant applications must be compliant with to be considered at its annual Budget meeting. Organizations that wish to submit a grant request must follow the following five principles:

1. Residence: Other than public sector organizations such as hospitals and colleges, the party requesting the grant resides and conducts business within the geographic boundaries of Lambton County.
2. Geographic Benefit: The requested grant should be for an activity that benefits the majority of the regions of Lambton County.
3. Core Services: The requested grant should be for activities consistent with, or ancillary to, the County's core services. For example, the County is not responsible for parks and recreation, so a request for such activity funding would be declined.
4. Operational Sustainability: Groups applying for grants should be operationally sustainable. A grant should not be provided to agencies/groups to replace a shortfall in operational funding from another level of government.
5. Capital Programming: With the expectation that agencies/groups are operationally sustainable, only grant requests for capital funding will be considered. Groups/agencies requesting capital funding should demonstrate that they have exhausted other sources of capital funding from groups such as the senior levels of government before requesting funding from the County.

Submitting a request

Requests must be submitted no later than January 1 of the respective budget year under consideration.

Interested organizations can submit their requests to:

Mr. Larry Palarchio
General Manager, Finance, Facilities and Acquisitions

The Corporation of the County of Lambton
789 Broadway Street, PO Box 3000
Wyoming, ON N0N 1T0

Telephone: 519-845-0801 ext. 5417
Toll-free: 1-866-324-6912
Fax: 519-845-3160
Email Larry Palarchio

Applicants will be advised via letter prior to Council's consideration of their application as to whether or not, in the opinion of staff, their request is consistent with Council's grant criteria and will be allowed the opportunity to speak to County Council at its first meeting in March to support their request.