Queen Street Methodist Church seeks to be active in its local community of Stirling to meet social and spiritual needs, as well as contributing where we can to justice and peace at a national and global level. Wherever possible we work together with other churches and other relevant organisations. Our major current partnerships and programmes are listed below.
- Start-Up Stirling is a registered charity serving Stirling in Central Scotland. The charity operates to assist and support families and individuals experiencing homelessness and financial hardship by providing home starter & well being packs and crisis food packs.
- Stirling Street Pastors provide a Christian presence on the streets of Stirling to give emotional care and physical help to hundreds of people using the city centre on Friday and Saturday nights
- Fairtrade Stirling is a voluntary organisation that works with Stirling Council, local businesses and local people to promote Fairtrade and fairly traded goods.
- Direct Link is a charity established and run by Pam McGibbon a member of QSMC, that sends money and resources directly to disadvantaged villages in Kenya, primarily to help children in their schooling.
- Christian Aid is a Christian organisation that insists the world can be changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We provide urgent, practical and effective assistance where need is great, tackling the effects of poverty as well as its root causes.
- Anonymous Groups meet 5 days each week at QSMC to help people overcome addictions to alcohol, gambling and narcotics.
- Eco Congregation is an ecumenical programme helping churches make the link between environmental issues and Christian faith, and respond in practical action in the church, in the lives of individuals, and in the local and global community.
- Progressive Christianity Network works to promote and support open and contemporary Christian understanding. The Forth Valley PCN local group is hosted and led by members of QSMC.