What is the DDF?
The Diocesan Development Fund (DDF) plays an important support role within the Church.
The DDF was established in September 1988 by Bishop Bede Heather and continues to operate to help parishes, hospitals, schools, aged care facilities, religious congregations and other Church related organisations effectively manage their financial resources to better promote the Mission of the Church.
OUR PURPOSE
Provide a source of finance and credit for capital expenditure in the works of the Church
Provide funds for welfare and pastoral programs in the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta
Provides financial services to Catholic organisations Australia wide
We adhere to these ideals by providing financial services to catholic organisations in the Diocese at a level and a value that is not generally available in the commercial world. We base our service on personal and individual attention and knowledge of our customers needs.
Since inception the DDF has provided over $476.4 million in loans to finance facilities for worship, education and other needs of the Church. In addition surpluses totalling $137.2 million have been provided to the Bishop to finance essential pastoral programs within our Diocese.
OUR MISSION
The mission of the Diocesan Development Fund (DDF) is to provide financial services that promote the continued growth and development of a vibrant and evangelizing Catholic Church in the Diocese of Parramatta. We achieve this through: • Providing loans to assist catholic agencies to further their mission • Facilitating transactional services to catholic agencies such as parishes and schools. • Operating efficiently to generate income for the Diocese to support the mission of the Church, pastoral priorities, and ministry programmes. • The development of deep long-term relationships with all catholic and charitable entities in the Diocese. Diocesan Development Fund Catholic Diocese of Parramatta
DDF STAFF
The DDF’s personnel are a team who understand the Church and are committed to providing high quality and personalised service.
Royce
Brennan
General Manager
Kaveen
Jayawardena
Accountant
Joseph
Weerasinghe
Head of Finance & Investment
Deirdre
Said
Customer Consultant
Helen
Steyns
Head of Lending & Operations
Edward
Silva
Finance Officer
Gail
Dane
Customer Consultant
DDF Investment Advisory Committee
Correspondence for the DDF Investment Advisory Committee should be sent to: The Diocesan Development Fund, PO Box 2605, North Parramatta NSW 1750.
committee members
MS DONNA-MAREE VINCI
(Chair)
MR JOHN SECKER
MONS. RON MCFARLANE
MS CORRIENE KARAM
Ex Officio Members
MR GEOFF OFFICER
(Chief of Operations & Finance, Diocese of Parramatta)
ROYCE BRENNAN
(General Manager, DDF)
ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORTS
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
The Diocesan Development Fund Catholic Diocese of Parramatta (DDF) (the Fund) is required by law to make the following disclosure. The Fund is not prudentially supervised by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority nor has it been examined or approved by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. An investor in the Fund will not receive the benefit of the financial claims scheme or the depositor protection provisions in the Banking Act 1959(Cth). Investments in the Fund are intended to be a means for investors to support the charitable, religious and educational works of the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta and for whom the consideration of profit are not of primary relevance in the investment decision. The investments that the Fund offers are not subject to the usual protections for investors under the Corporations Act (Cth) or regulation by Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Investors may be unable to get some or all of their money back when the investor expects or at all and any investment of the Fund are not comparable to investments with banks, finance companies or fund managers. The Fund's identification statement may be viewed at https://parracatholic.org or by contacting the Fund. The Fund does not hold an Australian Financial Services Licence.
Updated November 2018
Privacy Policy
The Diocesan Development Fund Parramatta (DDF) is committed to providing you with the highest level of customer service. We are also committed to respecting the privacy of our clients. Personal information is collected, held, used, corrected, disposed of or transferred in accordance with the National Privacy Principles and Privacy Act 1988 as amended. This includes safeguarding your privacy.
The DDF collects personal information to assess your application for an account, provide you with the service you have requested, and to aid in any future applications that you may make for accounts and services. The DDF may also use your personal information to carry out marketing activities and to assist in customer surveys for product development.
Policy principles
Our Privacy Policy states that we will:
- Only collect information that is necessary for what we do.
- Be fair in the way we collect information about you.
- Tell you whom we are and what we intend to do with the information about you.
- Only use and disclose information about you in ways that are consistent with your expectations or are required in the public interest.
- Ensure that information about you is accurate when we collect or use it.
- Keep information about you secure.
- Advise you about the type of personal information we hold and what we do with it.
- Wherever possible, let you see the information we hold about you and correct it if it is wrong.
- Limit our use of identifiers that government agencies have assigned to you.
- Obtain consent for the collection of highly sensitive information about you.
Personal Information
The DDF will do everything we can to meet these principles but if we do not please tell us and we will try and resolve any problem you may have.
The DDF holds personal information such as your Tax File Number, your personal contact details and financial information. An explanation of this personal information is as follows:
- Tax File Number (TFN): The Purpose of collecting your TFN is for passing on to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) when annually notifying interest details
- Personal Contact Details: Name, address and date of birth to establish your DDF account
- Personal Identification Details: Passport, Birth Certificate, Citizenship Certificate, Drivers License, Financial Institutions account numbers, store or club membership numbers, Medicare number
- Financial Information: Balance of your accounts together with details of withdrawals and investments transacted on your account
The primary purpose of the information you provide to the DDF is used to establish you as a client of the DDF and provide services from the DDF to you. If you do not provide us with the information requested, or consent to disclose the information as outlined above, we may not be able to offer you the service you have requested.
Personal information collected by the DDF may be passed onto certain third parties in the ordinary course of activities of the DDF. Examples of the types of organizations to whom it may be necessary to disclose your personal information include: Australian Taxation Office, Auditors of the Diocesan Development Fund, Melbourne CDF (Catholic Development Fund) who maintain our computer operating system.
Your personal information may be used for direct marketing purposes by the DDF only, and you may receive information relating directly to your account and new products and services the DDF may be offering. You may also access, correct or update your personal information at any time. Should you wish to do so please contact the DDF on (02) 8839 4500.
Notifiable data breaches scheme
In the event of any loss, or unauthorised access or disclosure of your personal information that is likely to result in serious harm to you, the Diocese of Parramatta will investigate and notify the Australian Information Commissioner and you as soon as practicable, in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988.
Enquiries
If you have an enquiry, complaint or concern about possible breach of privacy, please contact:
General Manager
Diocesan Development Fund
Post Office Box 2605
North Parramatta NSW 1750
Telephone: (02) 8839 4500
Email: enquiries@parraddf.org.au
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
ASIC Identification Statement
Disclaimer
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