COMMUNITY SAUNA NETWORK

  • We want to share the love and help bring the benefits of sauna to the rest of the UK, through a network of community saunas!

  • We believe that community saunas are best run autonomously by local people: it makes them more creative, inclusive and tailored to the needs of the community.

  • It also means that the future of the community sauna movement doesn’t depend on the success of a single organisation.

  • That’s why we’re launching the Community Sauna Network to seed and support new sauna companies around the UK.

    Apply for Community Sauna Network

The Community Sauna CIC was born in Hackney Wick in 2021.

Its mission: to bring local, affordable and authentic sauna bathing to the UK.

Our first three years have clearly proven there’s an appetite for it!

We now want to share the love and help bring the benefits of sauna to the rest of the UK through a network of community saunas.

  • A network that brings the benefits of sauna to the rest of the UK, through encouraging the birth of new sauna via a mixture of financial start-up support, as well as industry knowledge advice and consultation.

  • The Network seeds and supports new sauna companies around the UK.

    It also enable members to support one another through knowledge and skills sharing, as well as practical support such as sauna-building and site maintenance. It also provides much needed guidance on how to operate with local authorities, planners and government, as we all producing community sauna standards and guidelines to set a standard across the UK.

  • The first sauna to join the network is the newly opened Bristol Community Sauna.

    Based in St Annes, the new 14-person electric sauna has been fully funded by the Community Sauna Network. The network has also granted the Bristol sauna start-up costs, as well as consulting on various aspects of running a community sauna.

  • Network members will be asked to contribute a small percentage of their gross turnover to a central pot. In return, outside of the start-up consultation and support new saunas receive, existing saunas in the network also get a vote on how that pot will be spent, from starting new saunas to helping existing ones grow.

Applications to the Community Sauna Network are now open.

Good candidates will:

  • Share our values of being local, affordable and not-for-profit;

  • Be part of existing community organisations;

  • Have a space where a sauna could be located.


The first round of applications closes on 30 June 2024.