On Wednesday Tamworth MP Kevin Anderson announced they would receive $368,000 from the state government's Bushfire Local Economic Recovery program.

It will fund two years of training in marketing, grant-writing, strategy, and financial literacy for local businesses, he said.

"Small businesses in the Tamworth region have done it tough over the past few years," Mr Anderson said.

"We've had drought, bushfires, floods and now another wave of COVID-19 related restrictions.

"This program will give local businesses the tools they need to really thrive when things turn back to normal through a series of workshops and one-on-one support in areas of need."

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It also means a renewal of government support for the incubator, which helps local start ups get their ideas off the ground.

UNE SRI regional startup connector Ali Treloar said the think-tank had been funded by the state government to provide workshops until last year, but funding had come to an end.

"The program that we had previously been funded through has finished. We really stood by the success that we had," she said.

"Across the New England region we have 60 startup businesses, they've created 150 jobs and attracted over $14 million of investment in four years.

"We really stand by what we do, and know that we can help solve some of the problems regional NSW and regional Australia is facing."

The incubator will now be able to ramp up its programs again, she said.

Tamworth Mayor Col Murray said it was a clever way to give businesses support.

"It's a little bit different to the normal way that government endeavors to get some resilience funds into local businesses pockets off the back of our recent bushfire disasters. This one is more of an enabling-type grant which helps build the strengths required in business to become more resilient," he said.

"Even right down to things like some education and assistance with grant writing for example. We know how complex a lot of our resilience and recovery grants tend to be. This is a smart way of assisting local businesses to be successful with grant applications."

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The $368,000 program is funded by Stage 2 of the NSW Government's Bushfire Local Economic Recovery program and comes in two stages.

Part one of the program includes resilience plans, innovative business solutions, marketing, grant writing and product and service diversification.

Part two is delivery of two Business Leverage Programs providing business coaching, strategy and financial literacy.

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