Who We Are

Who We Are

Barry Trewin

Innovative and specialist lending professional. Leading a excellent team of dedicated and experienced finance personnel.

National Community Finance Group has been established by highly motivated and dedicated finance specialists who have over 20 years experience in the banking and finance field. Barry Trewin, and his team have been involved in different consultancy firms, but have come together to utilise all of their skills to help people fund their dreams.

We are from various backgrounds and have seen the way that clubs big or small struggle to obtain funds from year to year to keep their clubs going and both of us wanted to put back in and help clubs reach their goals financially. Being in a position to offer assistance for those clubs that desperately need it and make it easy for their members is our prime objective, most of their members would need home finance, why not let us do that for you and the clubs will benefit therefore perhaps reducing membership costs etc.

This is why the National Community Finance Group was established, to assist local sporting and other organisations enabling them to promote a healthy and enjoyable lifestyle.

What we do

We are finance consultants who offer an unbiased service to help borrowers through the process of acquiring a home loan. We have access to over 30 different lending institutions with all their latest information and product offerings and the ability to compare these different loans depending on each borrower’s specific needs.

Our aim is to put the client first, we have exceptional sales and service skills backed by additional support to see that the transaction runs smoothly from initial interview to settlement of the loan and relationship management beyond that.

Just like all finance brokers, we are paid a commission from the various lenders that we are in partnership with. These commissions are not paid by the borrower and are not calculated into any of the loans that are applied through us; therefore no fees charged by us to search for loans are paid by the client, only the normal fees and charges applied by the lenders. Our Lending Managers are paid a flat fee depending on loan amount irrespective of which lender is used so there is no need for our Lending Managers to show any bias.

What we do that is different from other brokerage houses is that instead of the commission being retained by the brokerage house we disperse a large portion of these funds back to the referring club in the form of sponsorship dollars for which the borrower nominates at the time of application.

Each commission payment is determined by the size of the loan amount and the financial institution from where it is sourced.

It does not cost the borrower more to obtain their loans through the National Community Finance Group. The products we access are the same as those offered by the financial institutions themselves. The interest rates, establishment fees and ongoing fees are the same as if the client went to the bank directly or through another broker.

What this means to your clubs/groups own members is that they can access over 30 lending institutions through one Lending Manager finding the loan that best suits them and also have the opportunity to help support their local sporting clubs.

The borrower’s involvement is to choose which club they wish to receive their sponsorship dollars.