Who has signed the Charter
Signatories come from many places and many roles, and each one has said what they will do to support public sauna as a common good. See who has joined, find someone to support your application, or add your name.
Sign the Charter
Signing means choosing the principles closest to your work and saying, in your own words, how you will put them into practice. It takes about 15 to 30 minutes.
Before you begin
- Talk it through with your team, board, or council.
- Ask an existing signatory for a few words of support. Find a signatory →
- Draft your commitments first. The form doesn’t save as you go.
Opens in Google Forms.
What happens next
The founding stewards read every application together, two to four times a year. Once confirmed, you join the signatories and the wider network, and we check in on your commitments as your work grows.
Questions about signing? Read the FAQs →
The people making it happen
These are the operators, communities, and advocates who have committed to public sauna as a common good. Find someone near you, or someone doing work like yours.
We’re open for new signatories right now. Sign the Charter →
Löyly Floating Sauna
“We’re working to open a community sauna social enterprise in Kelowna by 2027, with sliding-scale pricing built in from the start. Floating sauna revenue will help support affordable access, while partnerships with local health and community organizations will explore social prescribing, cultural safety and accessibility.”
Loyly Studio Singapore and Steamsauna.sg
“Loyly Studio is committed to building the community (in Singapore and region) to better appreciate sauna bathing and to adopt the practice/ritual as a lifestyle choice.”
SaunaGlo and Willamette Sauna Festivaali
“We will continue to expand our inclusivity programs, including specific interventions and trainings to support neurodivergent individuals and people with invisible disabilities. We will continue to learn and inspire learning about sauna-bathing traditions and international steam-bath cultural practices amongst our crew and visitors.”
Saunthropology
“I will live these principles through my sauna work: by showing up with care, advocating for them, and weaving them into my sessions, research/articles and public work. I will use my voice and practice to share, support and serve the sauna community, helping create spaces where more people feel welcome.”
Community Sauna Network
“As we continue to support the creation and growth of community sauna initiatives across the UK & Internationally, we promise to ensure that we will work with operators who are aligned with our shared values of affordability and accessibility, thereby alongside this charter, advocating for community saunas to be recognised community assets.”
Kamu Sauna
“We will launch Sauna for All, expand local community-based sauna programming, and help develop a Canada-wide public sauna initiative. Through doctoral research, we will strengthen the evidence for sauna as cultural and social infrastructure and continue supporting Sauna from Finland and the World Sauna Forum.”
Kotisauna
“We are trying to increase access to as many as possible with pricing low enough to be able to work in to a routine, and active outreach so sauna/wellness in Toronto can start looking like everyone, not just one type of person.”
Eetu-Antti Hartikainen
“I will investigate the state of sauna tourism entrepreneurship particularly in rural and regional Japan and analyse what implications emerge regarding its overall sustainability and community orientation. The project will culminate in a completed PhD by spring 2028, and 1-3 articles surrounding the topic will also be published.”
Wendy Yingyu Liu
“I advocate for sauna as a common good, advancing bathing culture as essential wellbeing and civic infrastructure.”
Mika Meskanen
“Launch London Sauna Week – a new event category and online platform to promote London's public sauna ecosystem and make it discoverable. Launch Sauna xS – a data intelligence tool that helps stakeholders measure and analyse public sauna access across the UK.”
Anna Talasniemi
“I will share insights from my academic research, continue practicing Finnish sauna traditions, including traditional sauna healing (perinnesaunotus), and advocate for accessible, inclusive, and culturally grounded sauna culture.”
Fad Saoil Saunas
“Access for all: launching our social prescribing project. A sense of place: Fad Saoil is deeply connected to the places in which we operate, its more than they physical structure, so we will carefully explore new locations. Community first: create spaces where all feel welcome and connected. We believe in talking the talk and walking the walk.”
Seurasauna
“We'll promote a more accessible and inclusive sauna culture through events, partnerships, research, and advocacy. We also continue working toward a publicly accessible community sauna guided by equity, belonging, and public benefit. Our co-creative approach ensures diverse communities help shape both the sauna and the culture around it.”
community sauna cic
“We commit 4% of our turnover to funding access and inclusion All of our new sites will be designed and built with universal accessbility principles”
Emma O'Kelly
“I’m writing a new book covering all people centred activities of the above”
Minea Lindqvist Herwitz
“I will steward and share the Finnish sauna traditions of my own lineage, modeling their culture and rituals in public saunas so others can carry them forward. Through my communications and creative work, I will educate and connect communities and advocate for responsible growth rooted in tradition, belonging, healing, and collective wellbeing.”
Oslo Badstuforening (Oslo Sauna Association)
“We will continue to work for our vision "Sauna to the people!" but with increased strength.”
Rachael McGrath
“I will continue to build the evidence base for socially prescribed sauna sessions in the UK and Ireland, with the hope that this evidence persuades policymakers to support Access for All.”
Dalva Lamminmäki
“I am passionate about fostering a sauna culture that honors its heritage while embracing progress. Through my research, I seek to share accessible and inspiring insights into the Finnish sauna's rich history and traditions.”
Julia van der Velde
“As a researcher and bather, I will honour cultural sweat bathing traditions and bring my anthropological knowledge into the community, to support a safer and more inclusive sweat bathing experience for everyone.”
SaunaTimes
“Pleased to support the initiative !”
Lucy Palmer Studio
“Access for all - Work with and bolster spaces where access for all is genuinely practised. Tended with care - Support folk tending sauna spaces and speak up when they’re not treated with care and respect. Natural world - Use my children’s workshops to deepen connection with local plants, stories and the living world.”
Association Francaise du Sauna
“As the 1st and primary sauna association in France, we are committed to help the sauna community grow int the best way possible, helping sauna entrepreneurs in their projects and spreading the sauna culture through our communication mediums.”
Saunakonkeli / Saunatemppeli
“We at Saunatemppeli focus on keeping sauna accessible by pricing, use materials and designs to create a sense of nature being present in the sauna and share the deep Finnish sauna traditions through our rituals.”
The Finnish Sauna Inc
“Valtteri Rantala : I will honour and share Finnish sauna heritage, cultivate healthy human connection through sweat bathing, and help people connect with nature and one another. We will keep sauna accessible and affordable, put the common good ahead of company interests, and lead by example and education in this rapidly growing industry.”
Waterstruck Wellness
“We have been and will continue to manage our forest based on sustainable forest management principles. We will continue to offer free sessions for nonprofits quarterly for connection and wellbeing. Continue to offer collaboration sessions within the community to allow for free sessions as an exchange for volunteerism with local nonprofits.”
Hikitalo
“We've just introduced blue light and student rates. By the end of 2026, we'll add weekly women's and men's sessions plus a regular queer sauna session. By summer 2027, we'll introduce a community or sliding-scale rate so cost is never a barrier, and offer at least 4 monthly rituals honouring the traditions they come from (Pirtis & Aufguss)”
KOS Sauna
“Access for All: We will bring a wider variety of people into our sauna through targeted community outreach to different ethnicities, ages, religions, and income levels. When needed, we will offer the sauna for either a discounted rate or for free. Doing this creates opportunities for connection between people that would otherwise not exist.”
Homestead Saunas
“We offer 2 days a week for community sauna sessions + additional pop up sessions. We currently also have a subsidiary program and sauna gifting, as well as readily offering community sessions for fundraising events in the local community.”
Garrett Conover, Author & Photographer
“My approach is being an ambassador of all things sauna. As author/photographer of SAUNA Magic, and presenter of three sauna based slideshows there is a measurable ripple effect. This will continue with my next book project (working title: SAUNA QUEST Adventures in Beauty and Peace).”
The Bravery Strategy
“Community bathing culture has carried me through huge big life transitions since I could walk. As an advocate, I share that story widely, stay informed, and point people to the spaces doing this work. As a consultant and retreat host, I offer sliding-scale support to sauna and wellness projects, and an open ear and heart to anyone building one.”
Cait Mitchell
“I will continue to learn, reclaim, and embody cultural practices around sauna and support an inclusive public sauna-bathing culture. I will share what I learn with others, especially my children. I will focus my practice on well-being, cultural exchange, and relationship with and respect for the nature world.”
Dankjewellness
“Three commitments to one mission of bringing people together - and having them leave with a smile. We'll expand our sauna for newcomers, offering a sense of home away from home. We're adding pay what you can sessions in 2027. Our aufguss sauna will be wheelchair accessible.”
Alan Jalasjaa
“I will advocate for low-barrier, public thermal bathing access in every municipal consultation, conference presentation, and industry panel I join through 2027. As a bather, I will attend local public community sessions at least monthly to foster a welcoming, respectful environment for first-time bathers.”
Session
“We will never charge bathers a booking fee, and will keep our fee to saunas capped and published. Every sauna can take all its records and leave at any time. By the end of 2027, we will publish free guides to sliding-scale and concession pricing for any operator, and share an annual summary of anonymised booking patterns from saunas that opt in.”
Randall McNamara
“Opening a sauna business in Japan in 2027.”
Wild Sauna Club
“I will work to support the communities we are located in, with mental and physical health. I will be working to implement a social prescribing programme over the next 12 months. I will continue to immerse myself in the sauna community to make sure I am continually learning and refining what we offer as a business.”
visitsauna.com
“As a Finnish sauna entrepreneur, sauna is part of my identity and everyday life. I am proud to share authentic Finnish sauna culture with people around the world and will continue doing so. Sauna connects us, offering a place of equality and simplicity. Becoming a Charter signatory is my commitment to preserving and sharing this living heritage”
Solhem Sauna LLC and The Vermont Log Sauna Company
“As a Sauna designer and builder since the late 80's I've had many opportunities educate my clientele-and often been educated by them! I've worked with/for Finns,Swedes,Danes, Russians and other foreign born folks over the years.This work has also included many public facilities; the hard work is helping developers understand the value of culture.”
Thea Pruuli
“Collaborate with communities of colour, queer communities, artists, and women. Offer trade, sliding scale, or low-no profit. Examine accessibility for those with physical and neuro diversity, as well as consent practices - transforming the sauna into an inclusive, queer, and caring space.”
SaunaPause
“"We will develop deeper & broader connections across more diverse community groups and organisations" "We will offer 'Sauna For All' sessions to welcome different community members" "Reciprocity will feature more prominently as a principle within our actions"”
saunamekko
“Saunamekko commits to providing natural, healthy, eco-friendly, inclusive saunawear for “before, during and after the sauna” so that ALL have a chance to participate in the sauna ritual with ease and comfort. Unencumbered physically, mentally, socially and spiritually.”
Lögr Sauna
“I will work to have specific formal partners who work to support a thriving local watershed. I will work to cultivate educational resources and tools of empowerment for companies, communities,”
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Help public sauna grow well
Sauna for All is run by volunteers. Your support helps us look after the Charter, keep this site running, and develop gatherings, training, research, and case studies. Whether you can give funding, time, skills, or space, we’d love to hear from you.
Ways to help
- Donate. Every contribution goes directly to the work of the movement.
- Offer space or hosting for gatherings and workshops.
- Share your expertise in research, design and building, or translation.
- Coordinate locally by connecting signatories in your region.
- Partner with us through funding, grants, or sponsorship.
Coordinating locally, connected globally
Public sauna looks different in every place. Regional partners are independent organisations that bring signatories together in their area, share local knowledge, and help the Charter take root where they are.
Regional partners coming soon. Interested in coordinating in your region? Get in touch →