AN intricately carved trophy specially created by award-winning sculptor and wood carver Tad Mandziej, is up for grabs by West Somerset’s top pub and club quiz teams to help a charity which has brought hundreds of children out of poverty.

Williton-based Tad’s two-foot-high sculpture, inspired by the poetry of Omar Khyyam, will go to the winners of a fund-raising quiz at Old Cleeve’s Lysaght Hall on Saturday (October 6).

The aim is to raise funds for an Indian educational and community development project, the Kathryn’s Mercy Home Trust in Devakottai, South East India. ...