Two weeks of festivities are set to begin in Haworth to celebrate a movement to promote fairly traded goods.

The annual Fairtrade Fortnight event will start on Tuesday and run for the first two weeks of March.

Highlight of the festival will be the screening of film Chocolat, about a single mother and her young daughter who move to rural France and open a chocolate shop with Sunday opening hours.

Author Joanne Harris, whose book of the same title inspired the film, will be guest of honour.

Tickets for the event, at West Lane Baptist Church, in aid of the Fairtrade cause, have sold out. Miss Harris has also conceded her appearance fee to boost the coffers.

Also appearing on the night will be two cocoa farmers from Ghana, who are visiting London during March.

They will also be visiting Manchester, which is to be made the 100th Fairtrade zone in the country.

Rita Verity, from the Haworth steering group, said: "We have persuaded them to come over on the way to Manchester on that night. It is quite cool really.

"So they are coming to enjoy the evening as our guests."

Fairtrade chocolate goods are also being provided by students from Thomas Danby College, Leeds.

Many shops and other places in Haworth, including Bront Parsonage Museum, the contact point and churches, will be providing Fairtrade products, particularly tea or coffee, and Traidcraft products.

Some of them will be hosting coffee mornings during the festival.

On March 10, an information and tasting stall will be set up in the Spar shop, on Station Road, which is one of the first Spars in the country to sell Fairtrade products.

Haworth was designated a Fairtrade village just over two years ago and this will be the third time it has celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight. The village steering group was presented with an award in 2003 for its tireless work to stage the inaugural set of events.

A range of other events will also take place across the Bradford district, including a five-a-side tournament, high-visibility stalls at supermarkets in the city and a visit from a volunteer in Ethiopia.

For more details of the planned events visit www.bradford.gov.uk/fair_trade.