British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA)

Formation	2005
Type	Mindfulness organization
Purpose	To support and develop good practice and integrity in the delivery of mindfulness-based approaches.
Location	United Kingdom
Membership	Mindfulness teacher-training organizations Mindfulness teachers
Website	https://bamba.org.uk/
Formerly called	UK Network of Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Organisations

The British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA) is a UK-based network of mindfulness organizations and teachers, which has been described as "the lead organisation overseeing the quality of mindfulness-based training in the UK."^[1][2] Founded in 2005 as the UK Network of Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training Organisations, BAMBA's original members were the mindfulness centers at the universities of Oxford, Bangor, and Exeter, as well as Breathworks CIC and NHS Scotland.^[2] The primary purpose of the organization is to support and develop good practice and integrity in the delivery of mindfulness-based approaches in the UK.^[1][2] It does this principally through the maintenance and dissemination of its Good Practice Guidelines, which provide a standards framework for its member organizations, and through the maintenance of a regulated list of accredited mindfulness teachers in the UK, who have been independently verified as having trained with a BAMBA member organization and as adhering to BAMBA Good Practice Guidelines.^{[3][1][2][4][5]} The independently verified teachers list has been called "an international first",^[3] and BAMBA has been described as "the closest thing that currently exists to a regulatory body for mindfulness training" in the UK.^[6] As of June 2020, BAMBA had 25 member organizations.^[7]

• https://bamba.org.uk/