Your donation creates real access to wellbeing.
Your Donation Creates Real Access to Wellbeing
At Community Sauna Baths, every pound you give directly helps someone experience warmth, rest, and connection who might otherwise be excluded.
When you donate, you're not funding a business - you're opening the sauna door for someone who needs it most.
Our Impact in 2025
575+ people referred through social prescribing
Accessing sauna through NHS and community referrals across our London sites.
3,200+ free outreach attendances each year
Weekly sessions supporting asylum seekers, unpaid carers, people in recovery, and those facing isolation.
48 new individuals are supported every month
Through personalised social prescribing pathways.
260+ outreach attendances per month
Providing consistent, trusted spaces for connection and care.
15 partner organisations
Working alongside us to widen access and reduce barriers.
3 dedicated Community Officers
Offering tailored support, booking help, and warm welcomes.
2 people supported into employment
Through our outreach-to-work pathway, we create longer-term stability and opportunity.
Want the longer story?
Continue reading for more of why we exist, what we’re building and the future of CSB.
Why it Matters
Why We Exist
In 2021, we came together as sauna enthusiasts with a simple vision: to bring authentic, affordable communal sauna to London.
There was nowhere in the city offering traditional sauna culture at a price ordinary people could access.
So we built it.
Today, we operate outdoor saunas across Camberwell, Hackney Wick, Peckham, Stratford and Walthamstow as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC).
All profit goes back into access, outreach and community programmes - because access matters.
How Your Donation Makes a Difference
Affordable Access for Those Who Need It Most
Your donation helps us offer concession pricing so cost never blocks someone from the sauna.
This includes:
People on low incomes
UK students
Over-65s
NHS staff
Blue Light workers (Fire Service, Teachers, Emergency Services)
Those living with chronic illness or disabilities
Access to heat, rest and connection shouldn’t depend on income.
Building Accessible Infrastructure
We operate accessible sauna sites across London.
Your support helps us:
Maintain accessible changing and shower facilities
Provide free companion/support assistant tickets
Continue improving the infrastructure for disabled bathers
Sauna should be physically accessible, not just financially accessible.
Fully Funded Social Prescribed Sauna
We run the UK’s first social prescribing sauna programme.
Your donation helps us provide:
10 free sauna sessions per referral
Swimwear for those who don’t have it
Companion tickets
Booking support
A welcoming cup of tea
We work with NHS teams and community organisations to support people facing:
Trauma
Displacement
Chronic illness
Isolation
Over 250+ individuals have already been supported - and we’re growing!
Outreach & Safe Spaces
Each site has a dedicated outreach officer working with local communities to design sessions for underrepresented groups.
These include:
Black Carers
Muslim Women-focused sessions
Addiction Recovery sauna
Mothers Recharge sauna
We create sober, welcoming spaces where people can connect without pressure or exclusion.
Impact
Our Impact So Far
7,500+ free NHS sessions
400+ concession members
250+ supported through social prescribing
600+ members regularly using sessions
1M+ sauna sessions offered
Pricing and Fairness
We believe sauna should remain affordable for all.
Your support helps us:
Maintain accessible pricing
Offer concessions and free sessions
Run community-led events at cost
Avoid raising prices to sustain outreach work
You help us protect fairness.
Our Vision is Bigger Than London
We believe every community in the UK deserves access to communal sauna bathing for health, wellbeing and connection.
We are just getting started.
Check out Sauna et Bains Collectifs to learn about our sister-branch in Paris.