UK Athletics risks cut in £27m funding if it fails to address problems after Hyde Peters scandal
Daily MailUK Athletics are at risk of having their Lottery funding cut in the wake of the chaotic upheaval at the organisation. In the past 10 months, UKA’s chairman and performance director have left under a cloud, and on Monday it was confirmed Zara Hyde Peters would not be taking up her post as CEO because of a safeguarding scandal. Sally Munday, the chief executive of funding agency UK Sport, is to meet UKA’s chairman Chris Clark to establish the facts of the fiasco around Hyde Peters, and she warned that there could be adjustments to financial support provided to the sport. Zara Hyde Peters did not take up her post as CEO because of a safeguarding scandal Munday said: ‘We do an annual review with every sport, looking at its performance and governance and how it is managed. But I also know we want to enable sports to give the athletes the best chance of getting medals.’ UKA, Munday said, ‘are clearly having some difficulties and we are in conversation with them about how we can support them to ensure that athletics, from a leadership and governance point of view, gets back on the right track.
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