Nimbus Access Card

I'm in the middle of booking holiday activities in the South of England for a family with 3 disabled members and 80% of the venues I've attempted to buy tickets for are saying they require the disabled individual to have a valid Nimbus card or they will not issue a companion/carer ticket.

It appears these companies will no longer accept your Blue Badge or evidence of your DLA/PIP entitlement, they all want the Nimbus Access Card.

This is obviously because it saves them money because they don't have to issue a carer/companion ticket if you don't pay for the specific scheme they want.

As far as I can see it is a very deliberate additional extra step to make venues less accessible to disabled individuals who require a carer/companion, and, tbh, if this was in the US there'd have already been a class action taken to sue the various venues and possibly even the Nimbus Scheme for not making it clear in their contracts that their service does not replace the equality rights of disabled individuals not to have to pay for additional proof of their disability.