A kind-hearted 12-year-old boy turned down a £20 reward for returning a lost mobile phone and instead told the owner to do 'something nice for someone else ' . Josh Brown found an iPhone4 on a train seat and answered a call from the owner 's mother after getting off at Birmingham on February 21 . He told Michelle Hickinbottom , 36 , that he would leave her 16-year-old daughter Shaunnah 's phone at the ticket office at Selly Oak train station on his way home to Alvechurch , Worcestershire . Josh Brown ( left ) turned down a £20 reward after he found Shaunnah Hickinbottom 's iPhone4 ( right ) on a train . Ms Hickinbottom had offered Josh a £20 reward to express her gratitude that she would have posted to him if he left his home address . Later that day , she went to the train station and was given a handwritten note from Josh as well as the phone , which had cost £250 . And she was stunned to see that instead of his address , Josh had left her a lovely message , which said : 'Do n't worry about the money , just do something nice for someone else . ' Ms Hickinbottom , from West Heath in Birmingham , decided to start a social media campaign to track down the youngster . And after her posts were shared thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter , Josh 's mother Angela Brown came forward on Friday . She said Josh , who attends Alvechurch CofE Middle School , is 'overwhelmed ' by the response . Ms Hickinbottom said : ' I just wanted to find him as I thought it was a lovely thing to do . I said to him on the phone at the time it was really appreciated and to leave his address so I could send him £20 to thank him really . Michelle Hickinbottom had offered to post Josh £20 to thank him if he left his address , but was stunned to find a heartwarming note , which said 'just do something nice for someone else ' from him instead . ' I was choked when I saw the letter . I was really overwhelmed . He will go far in life with an attitude like that . He seems a great lad . ' She added : 'We are really grateful because my daughter has got a lot of photos on there she wants to keep . 'It is more sentimental and personal than anything else . ' I think he knows how appreciated he is and hopefully other people will be inspired by this . ' Mrs Brown said : 'We ca n't believe all the lovely comments that people have taken the time to post on Facebook and Twitter , Josh is so pleased . Michelle Hickinbottom ( pictured with daughter Shaunnah ) said she was 'choked ' when she read the letter . 'We are still overwhelmed by the lovely posts and the attention it has attracted . 'We are very proud of him . But he just did the right thing . It was the only bit of paper I had in my handbag . It was the back of an envelope . 'It was all Josh 's idea . He said he was n't going to take any money off her and he 'd just ask her to do something nice for someone else in future . ' Josh said : ' I was going to Birmingham to see the canals being drained when I spotted this phone on the seat . 'Not long after a lady phoned it and said it was hers . I told her I was coming back through Selly Oak and I would leave the phone there for her . 'She was very grateful and said for me to leave a note with my address on and she would send me £20 as a thank you . 'But I decided to leave the note asking for her to do something nice instead as I thought it was the right thing to do . 'My dad always says 'what goes around comes around ' and if I lost my phone I would like to think someone would do the same to me . ' I did n't think it was a particularly extraordinary thing to do . But I was gobsmacked when it appeared all over Facebook and Twitter . ' Josh 's father Tim added : 'We knew nothing about the search for him . My wife was in town when a friend came over and asked 'did your Josh find a phone ? ' 'She said 'yes , but how on earth do you know ' and her friend replied : 'because it 's all over Facebook ' . 'Every Josh Brown on the internet has been contacted about it by the looks of it , I ca n't believe have big it has become . '
Josh Brown found an iPhone4 on a train seat in Birmingham Friday . He told the owner 's mother that he would leave it at station 's ticket office . Michelle Hickinbottom had offered to post him reward if he left address . But she was stunned to find heartwarming note along with the £250 phone . So she launched social media campaign to track Josh down and thank him .