Welcome to the website of The Church of the Assumption of Our Lady. We are a 150-year-old Catholic church located on Abbey Road in the centre of Torquay. You can read about our history on the church history page, and find out how to reach us with the interactive map. You may wish to follow us on our official Facebook page by clicking here. If you have your own Facebook account you may wish to click the follow button.
Please find below the Parish Newsletter:-
Newsletter – 1st December 2024
Important Information on Giving
Donate: Please consider joining the Parish Gift Aid Scheme which enables our Parish to receive an additional 25% for donations made by UK Tax Payers. Non-UK Tax Payers are also encouraged to use this option.
Our preferred method for receiving donations is by Standing Order.
However, there are a range of other options available:-
- Make a one off donation by cash or cheque
- Leave a gift in your will
For all details of all the donation options, please contact the following:-
Catherine Knight, Gift Aid Organiser for the The Assumption of our Lady by
email: torquay-abbeyroad-giftaid-prcdr.org.uk
Andrew Fiderkiewicz, Gift Aid Organiser for Holy Angels by email: torquay-chelston@prcdr.org.uk
Gift Aid: Please consider setting up a Standing Order to donate a regular sum via your bank to our parish. To do this please download, complete and sign the following forms: Gift Aid Declaration and Standing Order the download links (to follow shortly) for which are shown above and return them to the parish office. Hard copies of these forms obtained from the Gift Aid Organisers via the Parish Office.
For any queries, please contact our Parish Gift Aid Organiser for The Assumption of Our Lady: Catherine Knight via email: torquay-abbeyroad-giftaid-prcdr.org.uk
Andrew Fiderkiewicz, Gift Aid Organiser for Holy Angels by email: torquay-chelston@prcdr.org.uk
All tax-paying parishioners are encouraged to Gift Aid their weekly offertory and retiring collections which are for the benefit of parish funds. This enables the Church to increase the value of these collections by reclaiming tax on their value. Gift Aid donations can be made by standing order or special envelopes can be provided for weekly cash donations for the offertory and such retiring collections. All Gift Aid agreements are confidential.
Please contact the relevant Gift Aid Organiser (details above) if you wish to join the Gift Aid scheme.
Legacies: Leaving a legacy to a charity is a very popular way of helping others when you have gone. By leaving a gift to the parish in your will, you will help make an important long-term contribution to the work of the Church. It will be free of inheritance tax, so all you need to do is to tell your solicitor or will writer, that you would like to leave a legacy to the parish.