The House of Green no longer wants your green – as in legal tender cash-money.
London’s Budweiser Gardens has announced it’s moving to a cashless payment system.
That has one accessibility advocate seeing red.
“I was angry,” said Lisa Haven when she learned of the venue’s new payment policy. “We’re going a step backwards in terms of barriers for people with disabilities,” she said.
Haven is a social worker at Hutton House in London, which supports adult clients with various disabilities, including intellectual disabilities.
She says some people either don’t have a bank account or are unable to manage their bank accounts on their own. She worries they will be shut out.
“They may not be able to go to an event or have that independence to go. They might be able to go if someone goes with them, but again, that choice is taken away from them,” said Haven.
Budweiser Gardens, which is operated by venue …