@ThingBreaker said:
Here are steps on customizing Font Awesome. Mayhaps these will help.
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/wiki/Customize-Font-Awesome
Thank you, I'll have a look. Would any updates of the forum affect Font-Awesome in future? Ideally, adding the icon in a way which wouldn't require updating the icons each time would be the best way forward.