With over 250 businesses involved, the North East Expo held at the Newcastle Falcons’ Rugby ground was a big success this year.

The ECB Cricket Factory team were there supporting the Last Man Standing (LMS) cricket league in North Tyneside. Alongside the rig Northumberland Cricket Board were running a competition taking photographs of people participating in the Cricket Factory challenges, to put on Facebook for a chance to win tickets to a Durham 20/20 match.

Many business people came to visit us but our favourite had to be the Pirate Party crew. Check out our Twitter feed for evidence of Jack Sparrow joining the rig for some cricketing action – legendary!