Ashleigh Porter-Exley wins Young Apprentice The 17-year-old from Swinton, South Yorkshire, will be given a £25,000 investment from Lord Sugar, which will go towards kick-starting her own business career. Ashleigh, I've seen you take over tasks during the course of the last seven weeks and sometimes bring them through. I've seen you controlling what's going on and it's been a great privilege to have had you here in this process. The problem is that I've really got to think about where the £25,000 investment is going to be best spent. On that basis, it's a very, very tough call, but what I'm going to say is, for sheer and utter graft - Ashleigh, you are the winner of this year's Young Apprentice. Porter-Exley, who has held jobs since she was 13, said afterwards: "It's just absolutely amazing to know that I'm the winner and that Lord Sugar is willing to invest in me. It's the best experience I've ever had. You can have as much work experience as you like but the skills I've learnt while being here are just unbelievable. Porter-Exley, who is studying for her NVQ in business and administration as well as taking an evening course in accountancy, is planning on using Sugar's investment to either set up her own business in property management or to create her own accountancy firm.