The second round of Preschool Drought Relief payments announced by Tamworth MP Kevin Anderson last week will see Gunnedah Preschool, Gunnedah Baptist Community Preschool and Ooranga Mobile Early Learning Childhood Service benefit.

Gunnedah Preschool has already received $18,400, which will go towards a new 22-seater bus for transporting children to and from home, on excursions, to appointments, and to primary schools for transition days.

The pre-school has been fundraising for a bus for about 18 months and managed to reach $33,000 with the two rounds of drought relief payments and a $5000 grant from Monsanto under the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal.

Gunnedah Preschool has been hiring and borrowing buses and staff are looking forward to the freedom of having their own later this month.

"It's for families to access education," director Kate Olsen said.

"We're going to use it for excursions and getting out into the community more, and taking families and children to appointments who don't have transport."

Administration manager Tabatha Smith said by directing the funding at the bus, it freed up the pre-schools own funds for use elsewhere.

Gunnedah Baptist Community Preschool will use the $25,000 drought relief payment to pay for excursions and install a covered walkway from the car park to the pre-school.

"We've been wanting to put a cover over the walkway to keep off sun and rain," director Julie Frend said.

"We've been trying to ease the cost of child care by covering the costs of excursions families would normally pay for."

The pre-school received $25,000 in the first round and used it to install a dual-flush toilet system and an automatic watering system.