Using the WEMWBS Survey to Understand Wellbeing – and How Makerble Enhances It

Measuring mental wellbeing is an essential part of understanding the impact of your work. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) is widely used across sectors for this purpose. It’s a reliable, straightforward way to capture data about how people are feeling - particularly in the context of social and community-based services.

This article looks at what makes WEMWBS effective and how using it within the Makerble platform can help you go further - streamlining how you collect, analyse and learn from wellbeing data.

What is WEMWBS – and Why Use It?

WEMWBS is a 14-question scale designed to assess positive aspects of mental wellbeing. Developed through academic research and validated across diverse populations, it captures indicators such as optimism, energy, and connection to others.

Organisations use WEMWBS when they want a simple but robust way of understanding how their services affect people’s mental wellbeing. It’s particularly common in:

Charities working in mental health
Youth and community services
Education settings
Local authority and NHS-funded programmes

Limitations of Traditional Survey Tools

While WEMWBS itself is effective, how it’s delivered and analysed can be a challenge. Many organisations still rely on spreadsheets, paper forms or general-purpose survey tools — which often results in:

Time-consuming data analysis
Difficulty comparing results across projects or time
Limited insight into individual journeys or group trends
Insights that are delayed or underused

How Makerble Enhances WEMWBS

Makerble has been designed specifically with impact-focused organisations in mind. It’s built to make evidence collection easier — and to help you extract meaningful insight from that evidence as you go.

Here’s how Makerble supports organisations using WEMWBS:

📊 Instant Insight

When a participant completes WEMWBS via Makerble, their scores are reflected instantly on your dashboard. This allows teams to monitor wellbeing trends in real-time — without needing to download data or build custom charts.

🧍 Track Individual Progress Over Time

One of the strengths of Makerble is the ability to track progress at both the group and individual level. You can easily see how someone’s wellbeing has changed across multiple touchpoints — useful for frontline workers and useful for reporting.

🧩 Segment and Compare Results

Whether you’re running a single programme or delivering multiple services across locations, Makerble makes it easy to filter and compare wellbeing scores by demographic, service, team, or location.

📁 Outcomes That Link to the Bigger Picture

WEMWBS scores are part of a broader story. Within Makerble, you can link WEMWBS data to your project outcomes — showing how improvements in wellbeing contribute to your wider goals.

📄 Ready-Made Reporting

With Makerble’s reporting tools, it’s straightforward to produce summaries that highlight trends and tell the story behind the data — without needing to build reports from scratch.

Get Started

If you’re already using WEMWBS, you can get started with Makerble in a few simple steps — whether you want to import existing data or run your first survey through the platform.

We’re happy to walk you through how it works and explore how it could support your existing processes.