Icon needed to complement existing logo

Funds4Students

funds4students (F4S) is an innovative new website that helps students raise funds to help the pay for their time in higher education.

F4S is part of a larger and highly successful organisation that specialises in the development of world class web properties.

The main target audience are students who are about to enter and those already in higher education. The main age group will be 18-25, but it is essentially an opportunity for students of any age.

We've already gone through a logo design process, but would like to enhance the logo by replacing the current icon (the mortar board in the orange box). The look and feel of the funds4students text is to stay the same, but we'd like to see a '£' sign wearing a mortar board as the new icon. Also attached is a file that will give you a very basic idea of what we're looking for, but the final version must be a '£' (not a '$') and obvioulsy the final '£' sign and mortar board used will be different from the ones shown and have far more character. The '£' almost needs to have a personality of its own.