Three useful developments in the preparation of guanidines are presented herein; i) a collection of bis(Boc)aminoalkylguanidines (n = 2, 3, 4 and 6), known to be prone to cyclisation, have been synthesised and isolated (without chromatography) as shelf stable sulfonate salts in good yield (up to 94%); ii) a selection of guanidines tethered to a range of other functional groups (including alkyne, alkene, alcohol and azide) have been prepared in good yields with no requirement for a purification step; and iii) an inexpensive, high-yielding (93%) and facile synthesis of N,Nʹ-bis(Boc)guanidine (a key precursor for N,Nʹ-bis(Boc)-Nʺ-triflylguanidine) is described in which the need for chromatographic purification is again obviated.