Partner with Sauna Box

We issue the sauna. Sauna Box builds, funds, owns and insures the unit, so there's no upfront cost to you. It's never a lease: the sauna stays a Sauna Box asset throughout.

You run it. The sessions, the pricing and the day-to-day are yours, and you keep the majority of the takings. A revenue share comes back to us, reported from your bookings each month.

We model it together. Every deal is worked through openly on a call, line by line, so both sides know exactly how it stacks up before anyone commits. We don't publish the numbers here because every site is genuinely different, and we'd rather be accurate with you than tidy on a webpage.

• A commercial-grade sauna, built by hand in our Suffolk workshop and made for daily use.
• Delivery, siting and setup, worked around your site.
• Maintenance and spares: we look after the asset, because it stays ours.
• Training and the operator playbook we wrote by running our own saunas since 2021.
• A network of 34 operators who've already asked the questions you're about to.
• Our own booking and reporting software for partner sites is in development; until it rolls out, you keep the booking system you already trust.

A partnership works when the site and the person are right:

• Genuine footfall. Coast, forests, water, leisure venues, hotels, gyms and campsites are typical. People need a reason to already be there.
• Someone ready to run it. Sessions, community, the daily rhythm: a partnership needs a hands-on operator, and that's you.
• Ready now. Access, power and permissions within reach, so the first season isn't spent waiting.

We always start with one sauna, prove the site together, then agree a schedule to add more. That's exactly how Fowey Hall went from one unit to three.

1. Tell us about your site. Where it is, the footfall it gets, and how you'd run it.

2. A call with the team. If the site looks right, we'll walk the numbers together and answer everything openly.

3. An honest answer, either way. We only start a handful of partnerships a season, so if it isn't the right fit we'll say so early, and we'll usually be able to point you at a better route.

• You want to own the sauna outright. That's our build route, and it's a great one: see the builds, or the full guide to starting a sauna business.
• You want it fully hands-off. We're builders and partners rather than site operators, so we don't run saunas on your behalf. If you want a sauna for your guests without running sessions as a business, an outright build for your venue is usually the honest answer.
• You're looking to lease. We don't offer leasing on any route. Partnerships are a free issue with a revenue share; builds are owned outright.

Not in the traditional sense, and deliberately so. There's no franchise fee, no rigid template you're locked into, and no extractive ongoing licence. We'd rather build a small number of real partnerships with people whose values line up with ours than sell a badge.

If you've been searching for a "sauna franchise", this is the better version of that idea: the proven model, the training and the support, with the economics worked out openly for your site.

We've built 50 saunas, helped 34 people run their own, and we've built and run our own community saunas on the coast since 2021, so everything we hand a partner has been done by us first. Tell us your situation and we'll be honest about whether it stacks up.