A consortium of four local businessmen has taken over Championship side Cornish Pirates.
The group take control of the club from long-serving benefactor Sir Richard ‘Dicky’ Evans, who has been in control of the club for much of the past 30 years.
Evans announced in March 2022 that he would stop funding the club at the end of 2024, and the club said in December that they would have the finances to keep going until the end of the current season.
The new ownership group is led by current Cornish Pirates board member Martin Hudson, who is associated with the horticulture business that was founded by Evans.
He will be joined in the consortium by Philip Champ, Anthony Whyte and Lee Miles.
Champ is a sponsor and shareholder of the club and runs a medical supply firm, Whyte’s scaffolding firm also sponsors the club while Miles runs a hospitality and farming business that supplies the club.
Paul Durkin will stay on as the Cornish Pirates’ chairman while Sally Pettipher will continue to act as the club’s chief executive.
