Celebrating 25 Years Serving Schools

Paper Plus was established in 1999 by founders Lucy and Cliff Henry. To start with operations were very small, with Lucy building relationships with schools in the area from her kitchen table, whilst juggling a busy family life. In the early days Cliff busied himself finding premises and forging relationships with suppliers around the world. Later that same year, we moved into our first premises in Hollingdean, Brighton.

Peter Henry, Cliff’s father, joined the team in 2004 followed by Gina Horgan in 2006 who is our longest serving staff member outside of the Henry family!

In April 2006, we moved to Oakwood House in Burgess Hill. The small storage unit wedged between houses in a residential area of the town was the perfect place from which to start growing our fledging business.

The location was perfect and meant that we could increase the products we could offer, whilst still giving our customers the same fast, reliable service they had come to expect from us. The move also meant we had a larger office space to work from and twice the amount of storage space to hold our stock – a real leap forward for the business!

The business continued to grow and in 2011 we enlisted the help of a local logistics firm to store our stock and help with our deliveries. Our team continued to grow and we were also delighted to be able to purchase our first 7.5 tonne truck which gave us more control over our delivery service.

By 2014 Paper Plus had moved to a larger site in Burgess Hill – our current home on the Victoria Park Industrial Estate.

67 Victoria Road gave us our own dedicated warehouse with bags of space for our growing stock, a large office space for our developing team as well as offices and meeting spaces.

Roll forward to 2024 – our 25th birthday year – and we now have a fantastic, dedicated staff of 15 people and our commitment to serving schools and businesses couldn’t be stronger. We’re immensely proud of what we have achieved as a business to date and look forward to our future of serving our customers for many more years to come.