Thankfully, real emergencies are rare in the UK. Where I live, we haven’t experienced power cuts, flooding, or a crisis serious enough to warrant the need for an emergency preparedness plan. However, I do believe it is better to have prepared something rather than nothing. During Covid, there were shocking scenes of people fighting in shopping aisles for basic essentials, and I know for sure it would be exactly the same in another emergency. There were recent power outages all across Spain and Europe recently that lasted days on end, and authorities there recommended people have some basic essentials. With that in mind, in my emergency preparedness kit I have:

10 litre water carrier

Wind-up portable radio 

Battery powered floodlight

Wind-up torch

Portable gas stove with replacement canisters 

3 days worth of non-perishable food 

First aid kit 

What is more important however, is a willingness to help others in a crisis, a determination not to panic buy, and a desire to only use what I need to survive, not to hoard things for my own selfish aims.