You are missing commas in between your inner {}'s for instance, your JSON is this (and this is just the first two records)
{ "275": { tags: "", name: "1st Wickham Scout Group", code: "1stWickhamScoutGroup" } "1": { tags: "", name: "?", code: "devtest123" } } it should be { "275": { tags: "", name: "1st Wickham Scout Group", code: "1stWickhamScoutGroup" }, "1": { tags: "", name: "?", code: "devtest123" } } I found this easily using the excellent program "JSON Viewer" (http:// www.codeplex.com/JsonViewer)