PREMIERSHIP champions Chelsea have agreed to donate thousands of pounds to help a three-year-old Jersey girl waiting for a heart transplant by giving the proceeds of a match raffle to a local trust.

The club will hand over the takings from the raffle for the match at Stamford Bridge against Everton on Easter Monday.

The money will be used to help the family of Honor Merchant, who desperately needs a new heart and is at the top of critical waiting lists of UK transplant centres.

It will be given to the William Helena Taylor Trust, set up by millionaire Scottish property developer Colin Taylor to help Islanders in need.

And Honor’s family, who live at Cinq Chênes at Five Oaks, have to thank her mum Joanne’s Australian-based brother, Paul Chatterley, for getting the Premiership champions to agree to raise the money at the game on 17 April.

It is expected that a minimum of £8,000 will be raised, but it could be considerably more dependent on ticket sales.